| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-299) and index. |
| Contents |
1. The Jesus of History and His Movement, and the Politics of His Day -- 2. The First Confrontation with Paganism Under Nero and the Markan Community -- 3. The Political Theology of the Augustan Revolution : Cosmic Reconstruction -- 4. John the Seer's Apocalyptic Response : An Attack on Augustan Cosmic Reconstruction -- 5. Early Christian Cosmic Reordering : St Luke, Clement and Ignatius -- 6. The Apologists and the Politics of the Trinity : Logos and Cosmology -- 7. Cyprian Against Decius : Opposing Eschatologies and the Creation of a State Within the State -- 8. Constantine, the Divine Order of the Christian Empire and its European Legacy. |
| Summary |
In A Political History of Early Christianity Allen Brent examines early Christianity and its triumph in Roman Empire. Starting with the description of the apocalyptic movement of the earliest form of Roman [Markan] Christianity, Brent moves on to illustrate various aspects that have made Christianity so powerful. Explaining numerous ideas involved in the rising of the Christianity, such as metaphysical reality, church organisation, nascent Trinitarianism, Allen Brent also emphasizes the impact of emperor Constantine's position in the new Christian cosmic and political order: a Trinity of distinct coequal and co-eternal persons was to trump the claims of an imperial monarchy reflecting a cosmic one. Brent discusses the Christian history in the general context of political movements that seek initially to achieve a 'root and branch' transformation of present society. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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Religion and politics -- History -- To 1500.
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Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
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Rome -- Politics and government -- 30 B.C.-68 A.D.
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Religion.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church.
(OCoLC)fst01710945
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Religion and politics. (OCoLC)fst01093842
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Rome (Empire) (OCoLC)fst01204885
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Frühchristentum.
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Politische Bewegung.
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Christentum.
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Politik.
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Kosmologie.
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Apokalyptik.
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Politische Theologie.
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Römisches Reich.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 30-450
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To 1500
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brent, Allen. Political history of early Christianity. London : T & T Clark, 2009 9780567031747 (DLC) 2009504470 (OCoLC)310401989 |
| ISBN |
9780567606051 (electronic bk.) |
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0567606058 (electronic bk.) |
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