A new history of early Christianity
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: Beginnings. A trial ; The seedbed : Judaism in the first century AD ; Jesus before the Gospels ; Breaking away : the first Christianities ; What did Paul achieve? ; The letter to the Hebrews ; Fifty years on : the Gospel writers reflect on Jesus ; John and the Jerusalem Christians ; Creating a New Testament ; No second coming : the search for stability
- Part two: Becoming Christian. Toeholds in a wider empire ; Open borders : the overlapping worlds of Christians and Jews ; Was there a gnostic challenge? ; The idea of a church ; To compromise or reject : confronting the material world
- Interlude one: the earliest Christian art
- Celsus confronts the Christians
- The challenge of Greek philosophy
- Origen and early Christian scholarship
- New beginnings : the emergence of a Latin Christianity
- Victims or volunteers : Christian martyrs
- The spread of Christian communities
- Part three: The imperial church. The motives of Constantine ; Debating the nature of God ; The stifling of Christian diversity ; The assault on paganism ; 'No one is honoured before him' : the rise of the bishop
- Interlude two: the art of imperial Christianity
- An obsession with the flesh
- The end of optimism : Augustine and the consequences of sin
- Divine but human
- The closing of the schools
- A fragile church : Christianity and the collapse of the western empire
- Faith, certainty, and the unknown God.