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ISBN
9780300170832
Publication Year
2011
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
A New History of Early Christianity
Item Height
198mm
Author
Charles Freeman
Publisher
Yale University Press
Topic
Religious History, Christianity
Item Width
131mm
Item Weight
456g
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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This stimulating history of early Christianity revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion and gives a new slant on a familiar story The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. A New History of Early Christianity shows how our current debates are rooted in the many controversies surrounding the birth of the religion and the earliest attempts to resolve them. Charles Freeman's meticulous historical account of Christianity from its birth in Judaea in the first century A.D. to the emergence of Western and Eastern churches by A.D. 600 reveals that it was a distinctive, vibrant, and incredibly diverse movement brought into order at the cost of intellectual and spiritual vitality. Against the conventional narrative of the inevitable triumph of a single distinct Christianity, Freeman shows that there was a host of competing Christianities, many of which had as much claim to authenticity as those that eventually dominated. Looking with fresh eyes at the historical record, Freeman explores the ambiguities and contradictions that underlay Christian theology and the unavoidable compromises enforced in the name of doctrine. Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent-from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state-Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith. The imposition of correct belief, religious uniformity, and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the difficulties in establishing the Christian church, he examines its relationship with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman society, and he offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, and the church fathers and emperors.

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Yale University Press
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9780300170832
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Book Title
A New History of Early Christianity
Author
Charles Freeman
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Religious History, Christianity
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
131mm
Item Weight
456g

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Charles Freeman
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United States

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  • Detailed information about the origins of Christianity

    In clear simple English based on extensive research this book explains the many different ways in which early Christians tried to follow the teachings of Christ. Also it explains how certain powerful institutions added their own rules and dogma to suit their own greedy ambitions- fascinating reading!

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