Author: Everett Ferguson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802827489
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
A comprehensive survey of the doctrine and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christian history, arranged geographically within chronological periods.
Baptism in the Early Church
Author: Everett Ferguson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802827489
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
A comprehensive survey of the doctrine and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christian history, arranged geographically within chronological periods.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802827489
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
A comprehensive survey of the doctrine and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christian history, arranged geographically within chronological periods.
Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Initiation
Author: Alex Fogleman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009377396
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Provides a new history of catechesis in early Latin Christianity that foregrounds core questions of knowledge, faith, and teaching.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009377396
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Provides a new history of catechesis in early Latin Christianity that foregrounds core questions of knowledge, faith, and teaching.
The Apocalyptic Year 1000
Author: Richard Landes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195354737
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The essays in this book challenge prevailing views on the way in which apocalyptic concerns contributed to larger processes of social change at the first millennium. Several basic questions unify the essays: What chronological and theological assumptions underlay apocalyptic and millennial speculations around the Year 1000? How broadly disseminated were those speculations? Can we speak of a mentality of apocalyptic hopes and anxieties on the eve of the millennium? If so, how did authorities respond to or even contribute to the formation of this mentality? What were the social ramifications of apocalyptic hopes and anxieties, and of any efforts to suppress or redirect the more radical impulses that bred them? How did contemporaries conceptualize and then historicize the passing of the millennial date of 1000? Including the work of British, French, German, Dutch, and American scholars, this book will be the definitive resource on this fascinating topic, and should at the same time provoke new interest in and debate on the nature and causes of social change in early medieval Europe.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195354737
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The essays in this book challenge prevailing views on the way in which apocalyptic concerns contributed to larger processes of social change at the first millennium. Several basic questions unify the essays: What chronological and theological assumptions underlay apocalyptic and millennial speculations around the Year 1000? How broadly disseminated were those speculations? Can we speak of a mentality of apocalyptic hopes and anxieties on the eve of the millennium? If so, how did authorities respond to or even contribute to the formation of this mentality? What were the social ramifications of apocalyptic hopes and anxieties, and of any efforts to suppress or redirect the more radical impulses that bred them? How did contemporaries conceptualize and then historicize the passing of the millennial date of 1000? Including the work of British, French, German, Dutch, and American scholars, this book will be the definitive resource on this fascinating topic, and should at the same time provoke new interest in and debate on the nature and causes of social change in early medieval Europe.
Patristic Studies
Author: Catholic University of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The Bible in Christian North Africa
Author: Jonathan P. Yates
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110491702
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 899
Book Description
This second volume delves into the intricate dynamics that surrounded the use of Scripture by North African Christians from the late-fourth to the mid-seventh century CE. It focuses on the multivalent ways in which Scripture was incorporated into the fabric of ecclesial existence and theological reflection, as well as on Scripture’s role in informing and supporting these Christians’ decision-making processes. This volume also highlights the intricate theological and philosophical deliberations that were carried out between and among influential North African Christian leaders and scholars—in diverse cultural and geopolitical settings—while paying attention to the complex manner in which these Scripture-laden discourses intersected the wide variety of religious opinions and ecclesiastical and/or theological movements that so clearly marked this region in this era.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110491702
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 899
Book Description
This second volume delves into the intricate dynamics that surrounded the use of Scripture by North African Christians from the late-fourth to the mid-seventh century CE. It focuses on the multivalent ways in which Scripture was incorporated into the fabric of ecclesial existence and theological reflection, as well as on Scripture’s role in informing and supporting these Christians’ decision-making processes. This volume also highlights the intricate theological and philosophical deliberations that were carried out between and among influential North African Christian leaders and scholars—in diverse cultural and geopolitical settings—while paying attention to the complex manner in which these Scripture-laden discourses intersected the wide variety of religious opinions and ecclesiastical and/or theological movements that so clearly marked this region in this era.
Ancient African Christianity
Author: David E. Wilhite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1135121427
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Christianity spread across North Africa early, and it remained there as a powerful force much longer than anticipated. While this African form of Christianity largely shared the Latin language and Roman culture of the wider empire, it also represented a unique tradition that was shaped by its context. Ancient African Christianity attempts to tell the story of Christianity in Africa from its inception to its eventual disappearance. Well-known writers such as Tertullian, Cyprian, and Augustine are studied in light of their African identity, and this tradition is explored in all its various expressions. This book is ideal for all students of African Christianity and also a key introduction for anyone wanting to know more about the history, religion, and philosophy of these early influential Christians whose impact has extended far beyond the African landscape.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1135121427
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Christianity spread across North Africa early, and it remained there as a powerful force much longer than anticipated. While this African form of Christianity largely shared the Latin language and Roman culture of the wider empire, it also represented a unique tradition that was shaped by its context. Ancient African Christianity attempts to tell the story of Christianity in Africa from its inception to its eventual disappearance. Well-known writers such as Tertullian, Cyprian, and Augustine are studied in light of their African identity, and this tradition is explored in all its various expressions. This book is ideal for all students of African Christianity and also a key introduction for anyone wanting to know more about the history, religion, and philosophy of these early influential Christians whose impact has extended far beyond the African landscape.
Butler's Lives of the Saints: February
Author: Alban Butler
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780860122517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
For more than two centuries, "Butler's" has been one of the best known, most widely consulted hagiographies. In its brief and authoritative entries, readers can find a wealth of knowledge on the lives and deeds of the saints, as well as their ecclesiastical and historical importance since canonization.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780860122517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
For more than two centuries, "Butler's" has been one of the best known, most widely consulted hagiographies. In its brief and authoritative entries, readers can find a wealth of knowledge on the lives and deeds of the saints, as well as their ecclesiastical and historical importance since canonization.
The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age
Author: Jesse A. Hoover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192559400
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age examines an apocalypse that never happened, seen through the eyes of a dissident church that no longer exists. Jesse A. Hoover considers Donatists, members of an ecclesiastical communion that for a brief moment formed the majority church in Roman North Africa—modern Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya—before fading away sometime between the fifth and seventh centuries. Hoover studies how Donatists perceived the end of the world to offer a glimpse into the inner life of the dissident communion: what it valued, whom it feared, and how it defined its place in history while on the cusp of history's end. By recovering these appeals to apocalyptic themes in surviving Donatist writings, this study uncovers a significant element within the dissident movement's self-perception that has so far gone unexamined. In contrast to previous assessments, it argues that such eschatological expectations are not out of sync with the wider world of Latin Christianity in late antiquity, and that they functioned as an effective polemical strategy designed to counter their opponents' claim to be the true church in North Africa.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192559400
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age examines an apocalypse that never happened, seen through the eyes of a dissident church that no longer exists. Jesse A. Hoover considers Donatists, members of an ecclesiastical communion that for a brief moment formed the majority church in Roman North Africa—modern Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya—before fading away sometime between the fifth and seventh centuries. Hoover studies how Donatists perceived the end of the world to offer a glimpse into the inner life of the dissident communion: what it valued, whom it feared, and how it defined its place in history while on the cusp of history's end. By recovering these appeals to apocalyptic themes in surviving Donatist writings, this study uncovers a significant element within the dissident movement's self-perception that has so far gone unexamined. In contrast to previous assessments, it argues that such eschatological expectations are not out of sync with the wider world of Latin Christianity in late antiquity, and that they functioned as an effective polemical strategy designed to counter their opponents' claim to be the true church in North Africa.
Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity
Author: Marta Szada
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009426443
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This study offers new insights into early medieval Christianity, exploring how religious diversity and politics shaped post-Roman Europe.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009426443
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This study offers new insights into early medieval Christianity, exploring how religious diversity and politics shaped post-Roman Europe.
The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa (4th -6th centuries)
Author: Matthieu Pignot
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900443190X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
In The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa, Matthieu Pignot offers the first historical study of the progressive integration of converts into Christianity as catechumens in late antique African sources, from Augustine of Hippo to 6th-century letters.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900443190X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
In The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa, Matthieu Pignot offers the first historical study of the progressive integration of converts into Christianity as catechumens in late antique African sources, from Augustine of Hippo to 6th-century letters.