Early Christianity
have been, in the language of derogatory sectarian name-calling, ‘a Fenian’.) Nevertheless, I think this has influenced the fram ...
Chapter 1 What is early Christianity and why does it deserve study? The shape of early Christianity It may be worth beginning wi ...
medieval Christianity had begun. Indeed, one recent study has shown that deciding where early Christianity ends is difficult to ...
a variety of other social realities that influenced the development of Christianity before Constantine. Limited resources, wedde ...
we will need to look back in time before Jesus’ career and the activities of his followers. Hence, while the focus of this book ...
as temporary aberrations from what came to be identified with ‘the church’. Such partisanship, it should be noted, reveals the e ...
I am writing this book as someone trained and employed as a Roman historian, with interests primarily in social and cultural his ...
for example, talk about Mediterranean culture in terms of its unity, emphasizing characteristics that may be found throughout it ...
It is to this view of the ancient Mediterranean that I tend, and it is important to stress this at the outset since I see it as ...
visions he experienced. Hermas recounts how, in the days when he was a rather lapsed Christian, he was travelling to Cumae on th ...
paganism, felt that the answers to such questions were obvious. ‘The subjects of this book’, he remarked, ‘need no apology for t ...
In such circumstances, the intrinsic importance of studying religious traditions, early Christianity among them, would seem to h ...
on an appeal to bans on the consumption of blood in both the Old and New Testaments (e.g. Deuteronomy12.23–5;Leviticus 7.26–7; A ...
results can be rather disconcerting. Investigations into early Chris- tianity might seem to promise a vista onto a purer vision ...
the forces of secular humanism and liberalism (Park 1994: 144). In such societies, those who have turned away from Christianity ...
a Protestant school in Northern Ireland had been taught that the defeat of the Spanish Armada showed God’s favour for Protestant ...
development, where the various stages between an ape-like crea- ture and modern humans are shown as following one another in str ...
explosions in Africa and Asia (J. Taylor 1990: 633–4; Park 1994: 129–30). Meanwhile Christianity, while it has been marginalized ...
true that in many such countries institutional Christianity is on the retreat, with declining numbers of those practising religi ...
lively interest in Christianity even in supposedly secular societies in the industrialized world.^7 Against such a background so ...
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