| Description |
365 pages : maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
An ancient new people -- The world of early Christianity -- The founder of Christianity -- Jerusalem and beyond -- The Pauline mission -- Broadcasting the seed -- As master, so disciples -- Life together -- Struggle for identity and unity -- Confessing faith -- Victorious victims -- The seed of the church -- Aliens in their own homeland -- The struggle for unity in an age of persecution -- Christian spirituality -- Life together -- First principles -- Constantine -- Church and state after Constantine -- Christianizing the Roman Empire and evangelizing the world -- A people rent by strife -- Changing churches -- The call of the desert -- The barbarian "invasions" -- The ongoing task -- Solitude the rage -- East is east and west is west -- Imperial power and right doctrine -- Being Christian in a collapsing world -- The emergence of the papacy. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-364). |
| Subject |
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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| ISBN |
0687006031 paperback alkaline paper |
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