Lynch, Joseph H., 1943-2008.
Early Christianity : a brief history / Joseph H. Lynch. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xxi, 266 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jesus -- The Jewish context of the Jesus movement -- The Greek and Roman context of early Christianity -- The Jesus movement in the first century -- Christian diversity in the second and third centuries -- The emergence of a proto-orthodox Christian consensus: bishop, creed, and canon of scripture -- Roman society and the Christians -- Christian intellectuals -- Proto-orthodox Christian communities in the third century -- Diocletian, the great persecution, and the conversion of Constantine -- The Christian empire and the imperial church -- The government of the church -- The Trinitarian controversy -- Jesus, the God/Man -- Worship and piety in the Christian empire -- The ascetic movement -- Fourth- and fifth-century Christian thinkers -- Conversion and Christianization -- The eastern and western churches go their separate ways -- Epilogue: Muhammad and Islam.
9780195138030 (pbk.) 0195138031 (pbk.) 9780195138559 (hardcover) 0195138554 (hardcover)
2008049590
Geschichte.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
BR165 / .L96 2010
270.1
Early Christianity : a brief history / Joseph H. Lynch. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xxi, 266 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jesus -- The Jewish context of the Jesus movement -- The Greek and Roman context of early Christianity -- The Jesus movement in the first century -- Christian diversity in the second and third centuries -- The emergence of a proto-orthodox Christian consensus: bishop, creed, and canon of scripture -- Roman society and the Christians -- Christian intellectuals -- Proto-orthodox Christian communities in the third century -- Diocletian, the great persecution, and the conversion of Constantine -- The Christian empire and the imperial church -- The government of the church -- The Trinitarian controversy -- Jesus, the God/Man -- Worship and piety in the Christian empire -- The ascetic movement -- Fourth- and fifth-century Christian thinkers -- Conversion and Christianization -- The eastern and western churches go their separate ways -- Epilogue: Muhammad and Islam.
9780195138030 (pbk.) 0195138031 (pbk.) 9780195138559 (hardcover) 0195138554 (hardcover)
2008049590
Geschichte.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
BR165 / .L96 2010
270.1