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1) Quo vadis?
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Series
Language
English
Description
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Quo Vadis is a powerful historical novel about the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Through a romance between a high-born Roman pagan and a Christian woman, Henryk Sienkiewicz masterfully brings to life the decadence of imperial Rome during the reign of Nero Claudius Caesar (AD 54-68), the bloodthirsty persecutor of the early Christians.
Quo Vadis has been...
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Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxi., 342 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In this inspiring histoy of the early Christian movement, award-winning historian Kate Cooper paints a vivid picture of the triumphs and hardships of the mothers of the church. According to most recorded history, women in the ancient world lived invisibly. Piecing together their story from the few contemproary accounts that have survived required painstaking detective work by Cooper, but it renders the past and the present in a new light. Band of...
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English
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In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his "Confessions" is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his...
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 273 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Trenchantly interprets how an oddball religious cult became the official faith of Rome. . . . It makes for a thoughtful tour of Rome." -New York Times Book Review
Pagans explores the rise of Christianity from a surprising and unique viewpoint: that of the people who witnessed their ways of life destroyed by what seemed then a powerful religious cult. These "pagans" were actually pious Greeks, Romans, Syrians, and Gauls who observed the traditions...
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Columbia studies in the social sciences volume no. 136
Publisher
AMS Press
Pub. Date
[1968]
Physical Desc
215 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first Christians were weird. Within Roman society, they stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. A New Testament teacher traces the emerging Christian faith against its Roman context to offer today's believers encouragement and hope"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 393 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the time of Jesus' birth, thousands of people were leaving their families and tribes behind and flocking into brand new multi-ethnic cities. The world was undergoing the first phase of globalization, and in this ferment rulers and ruled turned to religion as a source of order and stability. The world was full of gods, competing and merging with one another. Selina O'Grady takes the reader on a journey across the empires of the ancient world and...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
Physical Desc
xxiii, 326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A New York Times bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping questions of human existence: where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from, and why do they endure?
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Publisher
Baker Academic
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xvii, 185 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Didache (or The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles) is one of the earliest Christian writings, compiled between 50 and 70 CE. Thomas O'Loughlin shares the story of this first-century manual for training converts from its discovery in an obscure library in Istanbul in the late nineteenth century to the present and then offers an analysis of the text's importance. His new translation, along with a commentary, highlights areas of key interest to Christians...
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Publisher
Baylor University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiv, 290 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Silly," "stupid," "irrational," "simple." "Wicked," "hateful," "obstinate," "anti-social." "Extravagant," "perverse." The Roman world rendered harsh judgments upon early Christianity -- including branding Christianity "new." Novelty was no Roman religious virtue. Nevertheless, as Larry W. Hurtado shows in Destroyer of the gods, Christianity thrived despite its new and distinctive features and opposition to them. Unlike nearly all other religious...
13) The early church
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Series
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
1966 [c1965]
Physical Desc
288 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Harper torchbooks. Cloister library volume TB92
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[1962]
Physical Desc
xix, 527 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the religion and its early dissemination"-- Provided by publisher.
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Series
Library of early Christianity volume 1
Publisher
Westminster Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
211 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xxvi, 230 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
IS JESUS WHO YOU THINK HE IS? Perhaps you've heard the recent buzz about "alternative Christianities" and "new gospels. " Speculations have shown up in magazines, documentaries, popular fiction, and even on the big screen. Much of the controversy stems from a library of ancient texts found at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Now revolutionary questions about the Christian faith are being raised as a result of these findings: Is Jesus truly a divine Savior or just...
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