Early Christianity
either of Jesus himself and his apostles or of the early martyrs. The circulation of fragments of martyrs’ bones and clothing, w ...
Renewal, reform, and the origins of critical scholarship The origins of a more rigorous approach to the study of early Christian ...
either out of concern for the preservation of their manuscripts or simply because they hoped to sell them for money. Among the i ...
that had characterized the renewed study of the pagan classics. The pressure exerted on Byzantium by the Turks, for example, was ...
Valla, however, examined the language of the Donation, found that it simply could not have been composed in the fourth century, ...
(1538–1607) – better known by the Latin version of his name, Caesar Baronius, and one of the leading lights of Counter- Reformat ...
writings about the saints (known generically as ‘hagiography’), publishing the texts as the Acta Sanctorum(The Deeds of the Sain ...
of this activity, as in so much else, was Rome. Throughout the middle ages, a number of catacombs continued to be visited, much ...
was engaged also in campaigns of militant evangelization in the newly conquered territories of central and south America. In the ...
(and therefore the paganism) in which it developed. Some forty years after Burnet visited Rome, the same journey was made by one ...
However much we may disagree with Gibbon’s bleak assessment of late Roman, Byzantine, and medieval history, there can be no deny ...
and twentieth centuries Towards modernity: early Christianity in the nineteenth nineteenth and twentieth centuries The nineteent ...
History of Early Christian Literature), founded in 1882, and Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhu ...
advanced considerably from the antiquarian endeavours of the Renaissance and Enlightenment. More scientific approaches, first de ...
remains found at the city. Early Christianity was now more than ever being considered as an aspect of Roman imperial civilizatio ...
an entirely new civilization. In this context, early Christianity has come to assume a new importance as one of the chief forces ...
Chapter 3 The search for early Christianity: sources and their interpretation This chapter will explore the astonishingly divers ...
Christian literature The New Testament Most modern Christians – and many non-Christians – will natur- ally commence their search ...
In Acts or in that part of Acts which is concerned with the adventures of Paul in Asia Minor and Greece, one is aware all the ti ...
concern anyone trying to reconstruct the origins of Christianity from the New Testament texts: their ‘historical reliability’. T ...
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