A handbook to second-century christianity
A handbook to second-century christianity
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
Tekstet på: Bokmål
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| Omfang | XXIX, 678 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: The Christian second century: Energetic innovations and legacies / Scott Harrower Defining and writing early Christianity: An introduction to the second century: Reading God, reading books, reading others / D. Jeffrey BIngham Second-century Christian women / Edwina Murphy Gallic, Greek, Asian, and unknown texts / Kirsten H. Mackerras and Jonathon Lookadoo Apologists, heresiologists, and first theologians: Preliminary issues, the city of Rome Antioch, Smyrna, Alexandria / Scott Harrower Emerging diversity: "Other" Christianities / David A. Evans and Paul McKechnie Jewish responses and pagan references to Christianity / Warren Campbell and David Lincicum The Christian second century in retrospect: The second century in the fourth: Eusebius and the codification of Christian history / Michael J. Svigel The New Testament in the second century: Chronology and the emergence of Christian scripture / Michael F. Bird The spectrum of early Christian texts: Early Christian letters: Building community, building faith / Janelle Peters The Nag Hammadi Codices: A window into the plurality of early Christianity / CHristine Jacobi Jesus books, gospel fragments, and gospel harmonies: Rewriting the Jesus tradition / Markus Bockmuehl and Jacob A. Rodriguez Second-century apocalypses: The proliferation of a contested genre / Jorg Frey Early apocryphal acts of the apostles: Remembered origins / Tobias Nicklas Martyrologies: A witness to theological formation / Lynn H. Cohick and Samuel S. Cho Didactic and pastoral writings: The pedagogy of faith / Jonathan Lookadoo Producing the Christian culture: Apostolic texts as scripture in the second century: Their significance and authority / Eckhard J. Schnabel Christian papyri and literary culture / Paul Foster New Testament manuscripts (possible) from the second century / Michael J. Kruger Lost (and found) second-century Christian writings / Stephen C. Carlson Practicing the Christian life: The rule of faith and the emerging Symbolum Apostolorum: Origin, function, structure / Tomas Bokedal Sources of second-century worship: Initiation, ritual, participation / Daniel Cardó and Elizabeth Klein. - The second century of the Common Era was a time of significant transition, innovation, and upheaval for the Greco-Roman world. In the midst of great societal changes the relatively new religious movement of Christianity began to find its footing as a coherent body—though undeniably marked by incredible diversity of thought, expression, and practice—as it moved beyond its Judaic roots and took on a more Hellenistic tenor, albeit unevenly. This formative era for the church has unfortunately received little attention from a comprehensive scholarly perspective; research is sporadic, fragmented, and often focused on the major texts of the early apologists, hardly representative of the full swath of the various forms of Christianity around the Mediterranean. A Handbook to Second-Century Christianity aims to fill that gap and provide a wide-ranging guide to the key features of the early church in the context of the Roman Empire at its height. Leading international scholars bring to light material evidence, neglected sources, apologists and theologians, heretical groups, apocryphal writings, persecution and martyrdom traditions, formation of the biblical canon, and ecclesiastical growth. Taken together, these essays present a rich and dynamic portrait of Christianity in this pivotal time period, one that takes seriously the variegated contours of the developing faith. A Handbook to Second-Century Christianity will prove an authoritative resource for researchers as well as teachers of Christian history and historical theology.
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| ISBN | 9781481314152
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