Early Christianity & Patristics
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The Christianization of the Late Roman Period: Cities, Churches, Synagogues, Palaces, Private Houses and Monasteries in the Early Christian Period [Hardback]
Beat Brenk (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828722
Published by : Pindar Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
A collection of papers which have appeared during the last 10 to 15 years which aim to explain the phenomenon of Christianisation based on the examination of religious, social and economic case studies. Brenk traces the transformation of the l... .... Learn More -
Restoring the Inner Heart: The Nous in Dostoevsky's Ridiculous Man [Paperback]
Mary Naumenko (Author)
£14.99ISBN: 9781942699125
Published by : Holy Trinity Seminary Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Written close to the end of the great writer’s life, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story The Dream of a Ridiculous Man tells of a transformation of the heart and a journey from despair to joy: a joy that can be known by all through the experience of G... .... Learn More -
Beyond Intolerance: The Meeting of Milan of 313 AD and the Evolution of Imperial Religious Policy from the Age of the Tetrarchs to Julian the Apostate [Paperback]
Davide Dainese (Editor); Viola Gheller (Editor)
£120.00ISBN: 9782503574493
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studi E Testi Tardoantichi
Volume: 14
313 AD is generally considered as a "turning point" in religious and political Western history. The meeting of Constantine and Licinius in Milan and the subsequent "edict" not only recognised to the Christians the right to assemble and practice th... .... Learn More -
Eusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History [Hardback]
James Corke-Webster (Author)
£90.00ISBN: 9781108474078
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, written in the early fourth century, continues to serve as our primary gateway to a crucial three hundred year period: the rise of early Christianity under the Roman Empire. In this volume, James Corke-Webster und... .... Learn More -
Archaeology and the Letters of Paul [Hardback]
Laura Salah Nasrallah (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780199699674
Published by : Oxford University Press
Archaeology and the Letters of Paul illuminates the social, political, economic, and religious lives of those to whom the apostle Paul wrote. Roman Ephesos provides evidence of slave traders and the regulation of slaves; it is a likely setting for... .... Learn More -
The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics [Hardback]
Robert Wisniewski (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780199675562
Published by : Oxford University Press
Christians have often admired and venerated martyrs who died for their faith, but for long time thought that the bodies of martyrs should remain undisturbed in their graves. Initially, Christian attitude toward the bones of the dead, saint or not,... .... Learn More -
The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch [Hardback]
Ari Finkelstein (Author)
£74.00ISBN: 9780520298729
Published by : University of California Press
In the generation after Constantine the Great elevated Christianity to a dominant position in the Roman Empire, his nephew, the Emperor Julian, sought to reinstate the old gods to their former place of prominence--in the face of intense opposition... .... Learn More -
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual [Hardback]
Risto Uro (Editor); Juliette J. Day (Editor); Richard E. DeMaris (Editor); Rikard Roitto (Editor)
£110.00ISBN: 9780198747871
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Scholars of religion have long assumed that ritual and belief constitute the fundamental building blocks of religious traditions and that these two components of religion are interrelated and interdependent in significant ways. Generations of New ... .... Learn More -
Perpetua: Athlete of God [Hardback]
Barbara K. Gold (Author)
£47.99ISBN: 9780195385458
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Women in Antiquity
Perpetua was an early Christian martyr who died in Roman Carthage in 203 CE, along with several fellow martyrs, including one other woman, Felicitas. She has attracted great interest for two main reasons: she was one of the earliest martyrs, espe... .... Learn More -
When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation [Hardback]
Paula Fredriksen (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780300190519
Published by : Yale University Press
A compelling account of Christianity's Jewish beginnings, from one of the world's leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization ... .... Learn More
