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Author |
: Thomas C. Oden |
Publisher |
: IVP Academic |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2011-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0830839437 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780830839438 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Early Libyan Christianity by : Thomas C. Oden
Buried for more than a millennium beneath sand and the erosions of time are the remnants of a vital, formative Christian presence in Libya. From about A.D. 68 till the Muslim conquest of A.D. 643, Libya housed a vibrant, creative Christian community that contributed to the shape of the faith even as we know it today. By the mid-190s A.D., Leptis Magna could claim favorite sons as the Roman pontiff, Victor the African, and as the Roman emperor, Septimius Severus. A rich and energetic community produced a wide variety of key players from early martyrs to great thinkers to archheretics. Tertullian, the great theologian, and Sabellius, the heretic, are relatively well known. Less well known are the martyrs Wasilla and Theodore and the great poet-philosopher-bishop Synesius of Cyrene. Uncovering this North African tradition and offering it to a wide reading audience is the task that Tom Oden sets for himself in this fascinating tour de force. The book, originating as lectures delivered at the Islamic Da'wa University in Tripoli in 2008 and later expanded as the W. H. Griffith Thomas Lectures in 2009 at Dallas Theological Seminary, has been expanded and refined to provide additional insights and references, surveying the texts, architecture and landmarks of this important period of Christian history. It also serves as a valuable companion to Oden's earlier offerings in How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind and The African Memory of Mark.
Author |
: Thomas C. Oden |
Publisher |
: InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages |
: 205 |
Release |
: 2010-07-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780830837052 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0830837051 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind by : Thomas C. Oden
Thomas C. Oden surveys the decisive role of African Christians and theologians in shaping the doctrines and practices of the church of the first five centuries, and makes an impassioned plea for the rediscovery of that heritage. Christians throughout the world will benefit from this reclaiming of an important heritage.
Author |
: Thomas C. Oden |
Publisher |
: InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2011-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780830868889 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0830868887 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The African Memory of Mark by : Thomas C. Oden
We often regard the author of the Gospel of Mark as an obscure figure about whom we know little. Many would be surprised to learn how much fuller a picture of Mark exists within widespread African tradition, tradition that holds that Mark himself was from North Africa, that he founded the church in Alexandria, that he was an eyewitness to the Last Supper and Pentecost, that he was related not only to Barnabas but to Peter as well and accompanied him on many of his travels. In this provocative reassessment of early church tradition, Thomas C. Oden begins with the palette of New Testament evidence and adds to it the range of colors from traditional African sources, including synaxaries (compilations of short biographies of saints to be read on feast days), archaeological sites, non-Western historical documents and ancient churches. The result is a fresh and illuminating portrait of Mark, one that is deeply rooted in African memory and seldom viewed appreciatively in the West.
Author |
: Laura Nasrallah |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 458 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674053229 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674053222 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikē by : Laura Nasrallah
This volume brings together international scholars of religion, archaeologists, and scholars of art and architectural history to investigate social, political, and religious life in Roman and early Christian Thessalonikē, an important metropolis in the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Christian periods and beyond. This volume is the first broadly interdisciplinary investigation of Roman and early Christian Thessalonikē in English and offers new data and new interpretations by scholars of ancient religion and archaeology. The book covers materials usually treated by a broad range of disciplines: New Testament and early Christian literature, art historical materials, urban planning in antiquity, material culture and daily life, and archaeological artifacts from the Roman to the late antique period.
Author |
: Kenneth R. Ross |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2018-03-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474428064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474428061 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christianity in North Africa and West Asia by : Kenneth R. Ross
"This comprehensive reference volume covers every country in North Africa and West Asia, offering reliable demographic information and original interpretative essays by indigenous scholars and practitioners. It maps patterns of growth and decline, assesses major traditions and movements, analyses key themes and examines current trends."--
Author |
: Anthony Grafton |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2009-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674037861 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674037863 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christianity and the Transformation of the Book by : Anthony Grafton
When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, two scholars of late Roman Caesarea, did far more. Both produced new kinds of books, in which parallel columns made possible critical comparisons previously unenvisioned, whether between biblical texts or between national histories. Eusebius went even farther, creating new research tools, new forms of history and polemic, and a new kind of library to support both research and book production. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book combines broad-gauged synthesis and close textual analysis to reconstruct the kinds of books and the ways of organizing scholarly inquiry and collaboration among the Christians of Caesarea, on the coast of Roman Palestine. The book explores the dialectical relationship between intellectual history and the history of the book, even as it expands our understanding of early Christian scholarship. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book attends to the social, religious, intellectual, and institutional contexts within which Origen and Eusebius worked, as well as the details of their scholarly practices--practices that, the authors argue, continued to define major sectors of Christian learning for almost two millennia and are, in many ways, still with us today.,
Author |
: Wendy Elgersma Helleman |
Publisher |
: Langham Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 425 |
Release |
: 2019-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783685691 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783685697 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Early Christianity by : Wendy Elgersma Helleman
Designed as an undergraduate textbook, and shaped by needs of both Muslim and Christian students across Africa, this resource provides a thorough introduction to the history, theology and teaching of early Christianity. Professors Helleman and Gaiya follow Christianity from its inception in Jerusalem through to the decline of the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean and the development of Orthodox churches in the East and in Africa before the arrival of Islam. The book provides an overview of critical historical events, controversies, teaching, and important individuals and movements providing foundational understanding of early developments in Christianity and the general history of antiquity. Students and lecturers will also appreciate the attention given to the role of North African leaders in early Christianity and the impact of major issues on the North African church, such as Gnosticism, Donatism and Arianism. Additional Features: • Introduction to online tools & resources •Survey of the study of early Christianity • Introduction to key historians • Evaluation of recent literature & early Christianity
Author |
: George Elison |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 564 |
Release |
: 2020-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781684172795 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1684172799 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Deus Destroyed by : George Elison
"Japan’s “Christian Century” began in 1549 with the arrival of Jesuit missionaries led by Saint Francis Xavier, and ended in 1639 when the Tokugawa regime issued the final Sakoku Edict prohibiting all traffic with Catholic lands. “Sakoku”—national isolation—would for more than two centuries be the sum total of the regime’s approach to foreign affairs. This policy was accompanied by the persecution of Christians inside Japan, a course of action for which the missionaries and their zealots were in part responsible because of their dogmatic orthodoxy. The Christians insisted that “Deus” was owed supreme loyalty, while the Tokugawa critics insisted on the prior importance of performing one’s role within the secular order, and denounced the subversive doctrine whose First Commandment seemed to permit rebellion against the state. In discussing the collision of ideas and historical processes, George Elison explores the attitudes and procedures of the missionaries, describes the entanglements in politics that contributed heavily to their doom, and shows the many levels of the Japanese response to Christianity. Central to his book are translations of four seventeenth-century, anti-Christian polemical tracts."
Author |
: David Brakke |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 181 |
Release |
: 2011-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674058897 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674058895 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gnostics by : David Brakke
Who were the Gnostics? And how did the Gnostic movement influence the development of Christianity in antiquity? Is it true that the Church rejected Gnosticism? This book offers an illuminating discussion of recent scholarly debates over the concept of “Gnosticism” and the nature of early Christian diversity. Acknowledging that the category “Gnosticism” is flawed and must be reformed, David Brakke argues for a more careful approach to gathering evidence for the ancient Christian movement known as the Gnostic school of thought. He shows how Gnostic myth and ritual addressed basic human concerns about alienation and meaning, offered a message of salvation in Jesus, and provided a way for people to regain knowledge of God, the ultimate source of their being. Rather than depicting the Gnostics as heretics or as the losers in the fight to define Christianity, Brakke argues that the Gnostics participated in an ongoing reinvention of Christianity, in which other Christians not only rejected their ideas but also adapted and transformed them. This book will challenge scholars to think in news ways, but it also provides an accessible introduction to the Gnostics and their fellow early Christians.
Author |
: Simon Esmonde Cleary |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 551 |
Release |
: 2013-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521196499 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521196493 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Roman West, AD 200-500 by : Simon Esmonde Cleary
This book focuses on the archaeological evidence, allowing fresh perspectives and new approaches to the fate of the Roman West.