TY  - BOOK
AU  - Esler, Philip F
AU  - Esler,Philip F
TI  - The Early Christian World
SN  - 9781138200074
U1  - J11 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Church History
KW  - Primitive and Early Church
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. The Context ..........1
The mediterranean Context of Early Christianity .............3
Armies, Emperors and Bureaucrats ......27
Graeco-Roman Philosophy and Religion ......48
Jewish Tradition and Culture ..........73
2. Christian Origins and Development .............95
The Galilean World of Jesus ......97
Early Jewish Christianity ........121
From the Hellenists to Marcoion: Early gentile christianity .......142
The Jesus Tradition: The Gospel writers strategies of Persuasion ....169
The Second and Third Centuries ............197
From constantine to Theodosius ....220
Jewish and Christian Interaction from the First to the Fifth Centuries ......244
3. Community formation and Maintenance ........265
Mission and Expansion ......267
The Development of Office in the Early Church .........284
Christian Regional Diversity ........295
Monasticism ..........307
4. Everyday Christian Experience .......327
Reading the New Testament in Roman Britain ...........329
Sex and Sexual Renunciation I .........355
Sex and Sexual Renunciation II : Developments in Research since 2000........372
Women, Children and house Churches ............385
Worship, practice, and Belief...........................406
Ritual and the rise of the Early Christian Movement .......427
Communication and Trav el ..........442
5. Christian Culture ..........465
Christian Realia: Papyrological and Epigraphical Material .......467
Scriptures in Early Christianity .........483
Saints and Hagiography ..........501
Translation and Communication across Cultures ........515
6. The Intellectual Heritage ...........527
The Apostolic Fathers ............529
The apologists ..........547
Early theologians ........565
Later theologians of the Greek East .........587
Later theologians of the West ..........606
Creeds, Councils and Doctrinal Development ........631
Biblical Interpretation ............647
7. The Artistic Heritage ........671
Early Christian Architecture : The first five Centuries ........673
Aret ..........717
Music ........745
Imaginative literature .........762
8. External Challenges ...........781
Political Oppression and Martyrdom .....783
Graeco-Roman philosophical Opposition ..........796
Popular Graeco-Roman Responses to Christianity ..........817
9. Internal Challenges ........835
Internal Renewal and Dissent in the Early christian world .......837
Gnosticism ...........867
Montanism ......885
10. Profiles ..........941
Origen ...........943
Tertullian ......959
Perpetua and Felicitas ........976
Constantine ........996
Anthony the Great ......1010
Pachomius the Great.........1021
Athanasius ......1036
John Chrysostom ........1054
Gregory of Nyssa ......1072
Jerome .....1087
Ambrose ......1102
Augustine .......1126
Ephrem the syrian ............1145
Julian the Apostate ........1169


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