The Early Church books

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Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide

Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide

Author: Gerard O'Daly (Emeritus Professor of Latin, University College London)
ISBN: 9780198841241
Format: Paperback
$71.95

The City of God, written in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, is the most influential of Augustine's...  Read More >>

John among the Apocalypses: Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the 'Apocalyptic' Gospel

John among the Apocalypses: Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition...

Author: Benjamin E. Reynolds (Professor of New Testament, Associate Professor of New Testament, Tyndale University College)
ISBN: 9780198784241
Format: Hardback
$160.95

John among the Apocalypses explains John's distinctive narrative of Jesus's life by comparing it to Jewish apocalypses...  Read More >>

In Search of First-Century Christianity

In Search of First-Century Christianity

Author: Joe E. Barnhart ,  Linda T. Kraeger
ISBN: 9781138716094
Format: Paperback
$69.99

First published in 2000, this book contends that Christianity in the first century had no founder but rather evolved...  Read More >>

The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500

The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment...

Author: Dyan Elliott ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
ISBN: 9780812224764
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Following a long trajectory from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages, Dyan Elliott offers a provocative analysis...  Read More >>

Intertextualität in den Mönchsviten des Athanasios und des Hieronymus: Eremiten zum Dialog bestellt

Intertextualität in den Mönchsviten des Athanasios und...

Author: Shakira-Tasmin Prädicow
ISBN: 9783110699746
Format: Hardback
$180.09

In three of his Latin lives of monks, Jerome refers back - both implicitly and explicitly - to Athanasius' Greek...  Read More >>

Discipleship and Society in the Early Churches

Discipleship and Society in the Early Churches

Author: Thomas O'Loughlin
ISBN: 9780718893248
Format: Paperback
$132.00

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Prudentius, ›Psychomachia‹: Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar

Prudentius, ›Psychomachia‹: Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung...

Author: Magnus Frisch
ISBN: 9783110628432
Format: Hardback
$265.89

Prudentius' Psychomachia is the first fully allegorical epic in the Western tradition. It was an especially important...  Read More >>

Philosophische Erotapokriseis und theologische Kapitel: Quaestiones gentilium ad Christianos. Quaestiones contra gentiles de relatis. Capita contra theopaschitas

Philosophische Erotapokriseis und theologische Kapitel:...

Author: Ps-Justinus Martyr ,  Benjamin Gleede
ISBN: 9783110715934
Format: Hardback
$145.77

This edition offers one well-known and two previously unknown tractates by a Nestorian author writing at the turn...  Read More >>

Catalogue of Coptic and Arabic Manuscripts in Dayr al-Suryan. Volume 1: Coptic and Arabic Biblical Texts; Coptic Language Resources, Including Biblical Lexica

Catalogue of Coptic and Arabic Manuscripts in Dayr al-Suryan....

Author: S.J. Davis
ISBN: 9789042940130
Format: Paperback
$430.32

A catalogue of the Coptic and Arabic collections at Dayr al-Suryan in Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt, to be published...  Read More >>

Christian Forgery in Jewish Antiquities: Josephus Interrupted

Christian Forgery in Jewish Antiquities: Josephus Interrupted...

Author: Nicholas Peter Legh Allen
ISBN: 9781527555273
Format: Hardback
$168.16

Since at least the fourth century CE, the Jewish historian Josephus’ Judean Antiquities has been assumed to be a...  Read More >>

The Slave Metaphor and Gendered Enslavement in Early Christian Discourse: Double Trouble Embodied

The Slave Metaphor and Gendered Enslavement in Early...

Author: Marianne Bjelland Kartzow (University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9780367591533
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book adds new knowledge to the ongoing discussion of slavery in early Christian discourse. Kartzow argues that...  Read More >>

Voting About God in Early Church Councils

Voting About God in Early Church Councils

Author: Ramsay MacMullen
ISBN: 9780300255416
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Explores how early Christian doctrines became official. Drawing on extensive verbatim stenographic records, this...  Read More >>

Augustine: The City of God Books XV and XVI

Augustine: The City of God Books XV and XVI

Author: Augustine ,  Peter Walsh
ISBN: 9781786940186
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The volume continues P. G. Walsh's admired translation with commentary of Augustine's City of God. Books I-XIV have...  Read More >>

Poverty in the Early Church and Today: A Conversation

Poverty in the Early Church and Today: A Conversation...

Author: Dr Steve Walton (Trinity College, Bristol, UK) ,  Dr Hannah Swithinbank (Tearfund, UK)
ISBN: 9780567695505
Format: Paperback
$66.99

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. This...  Read More >>

The Church and the Law: Volume 56

The Church and the Law: Volume 56

Author: Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge) ,  Charlotte Methuen (University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781108839631
Format: Hardback
$168.19

This volume explores the legal issues and legal consequences underlying relations between secular and religious...  Read More >>

John of Damascus: New Studies on his Life and Works

John of Damascus: New Studies on his Life and Works...

Author: Vassa Kontouma
ISBN: 9780367599218
Format: Paperback
$83.99

For more than five hundred years John of Damascus (c. 655-c.745) has been the subject of an extensive literature,...  Read More >>

Basil the Great: Faith, Mission and Diplomacy in the Shaping of Christian Doctrine

Basil the Great: Faith, Mission and Diplomacy in the...

Author: Nicu Dumitrașcu
ISBN: 9780367591601
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Regarded as one of the three hierarchs or pillars of orthodoxy along with Gregory of Nazianzus and John Chrysostom,...  Read More >>

Universal Salvation and Freedom of Choice according to Origen of Alexandria

Universal Salvation and Freedom of Choice according...

Author: Lee Sytsma
ISBN: 9781463239503
Format: Hardback
$377.52

An exploration of paradoxical beliefs in the writings of Origen of Alexandria.  Read More >>

Visions and Faces of the Tragic: The Mimesis of Tragedy and the Folly of Salvation in Early Christian Literature

Visions and Faces of the Tragic: The Mimesis of Tragedy...

Author: Paul M. Blowers (Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History, Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History, Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan College)
ISBN: 9780198854104
Format: Hardback
$195.95

This study presses beyond the pervasive early Christian aversion to pagan theatrical art in all its forms and investigates...  Read More >>

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