Early Christianity & Patristics

ISBN: 9780754662662
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
This volume, on the cult of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) in Byzantium, focuses on textual and historical aspects of the subject. The principal focus is on the 8th and 9th centuries in Byzantium, as a critical period when Christian attitudes tow... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674996670
Published by : Harvard University Press
Latin text of the Vulgate Bible with facing English translation (the Douay Rheims version). This volume contains Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and 1-4 Kings. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674060777
Published by : Harvard University Press
Latin text of the Vulgate Bible with facing English translation (the Douay-Rheims version). This volume contains 1-2 Chronicles, 1-2 Ezra, Tobit, Judith and Esther. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780691143576
Published by : Princeton University Press
Garry Wills tells the story of the "Confessions" - what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Wills also addresses the long afterl... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004194533
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Although angels are typically associated with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Ancient Angels demonstrates that angels (angeloi) were also a prominent feature of non-Abrahamic religions in the Roman era. Following an interdisciplinary approac... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780520268623
Published by : University of California Press
"Theodoret's People" sheds new light on religious clashes of the mid-fifth century regarding the nature (or natures) of Christ. Adam M. Schor focuses on Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus, his Syrian allies, and his opponents, led by Alexandrian bish... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415890014
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Early Christian Dress is the first full-length monograph on the subject of dress in early Christianity. It pays attention to the ways in which dress expressed and shaped Christian identity, the role dress played in Christians' rivalries with pa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780567032164
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
Our understanding of the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Israelites has changed considerably in recent years. It is now increasingly accepted among scholars that the biblical presentation of Israelite religion is often at odds wi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199596645
Published by : Oxford University Press
J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz compares the personalities and the respective careers of two of the greatest of the early Christian Fathers, Ambrose and John Chrysostom. While the statesmanlike Ambrose ended his life as a pillar of the Western establi... .... Learn More