The Scriptural Universe Of Ancient Christianity
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Author | : Guy G. Stroumsa |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2016-11-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0674974867 |
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The passage of texts from scroll to codex created a revolution in the religious life of late antiquity. It played a decisive role in the Roman Empire’s conversion to Christianity and eventually enabled the worldwide spread of Christian faith. The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity describes how canonical scripture was established and how scriptural interpretation replaced blood sacrifice as the central element of religious ritual. Perhaps more than any other cause, Guy G. Stroumsa argues, the codex converted the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity. The codex permitted a mode of religious transmission across vast geographical areas, as sacred texts and commentaries circulated in book translations within and beyond Roman borders. Although sacred books had existed in ancient societies, they were now invested with a new aura and a new role at the core of religious ceremony. Once the holy book became central to all aspects of religious experience, the floodgates were opened for Greek and Latin texts to be reimagined and repurposed as proto-Christian. Most early Christian theologians did not intend to erase Greek and Roman cultural traditions; they were content to selectively adopt the texts and traditions they deemed valuable and compatible with the new faith, such as Platonism. The new cultura christiana emerging in late antiquity would eventually become the backbone of European identity.
Author | : Arthur D. Nock |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Isaac Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : Celibacy |
ISBN | : |
Download Ancient Christianity, and the Doctrines of the Oxford Tracts for the Times Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Susan Emanuel |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2011-08-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1459627520 |
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The religious transformations that marked late antiquity represent an enigma that has challenged some of the West's greatest thinkers. But, according to Guy Stroumsa, the oppositions between paganism and Christianity that characterize prevailing theories have endured for too long. Instead of describing this epochal change as an evolution within ...
Author | : Isaac Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Church history |
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Author | : Charles Kannengiesser |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 703 |
Release | : 2004-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9047403959 |
Download Handbook of Patristic Exegesis Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Through this comprehensive Handbook, the reader will obtain a balanced and cohesive picture of the Early Church. It gives an overall view of the reception, transmission, and interpretation of the Bible in the life and thought of the Church during the first five centuries of Christianity.
Author | : Paul Johnson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2012-03-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451688512 |
Download History of Christianity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books). In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known ‘Jesus Sect’, A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.
Author | : Robert Austin Markus |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : 9780472109975 |
Download The Limits of Ancient Christianity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Sixteen essays explore the end of ancient Christianity
Author | : Angelo Di Berardino |
Publisher | : IVP Academic |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-02-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780830829415 |
Download Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity, Vol. 2. F-O Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity covers eight centuries of the Christian church and comprises 3,220 entries by a team of 266 scholars from 26 countries representing a variety of Christian traditions. It draws upon such fields as archaeology, art and architecture, biography, cultural studies, ecclesiology, geography, history, philosophy, and theology. This edition updates and expands on previous Italian and English-language editions with the addition of more than 500 new articles (added to the current Italian or English edition). Extensive cross-referencing provides ease in exploring related articles, and helpful bibliographies, including primary sources (texts, critical editions, translations) and key secondary sources (books and journal articles), give access to in-depth scholarship in countless disciplines of study. --From publisher's description.
Author | : Lyman Coleman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1852 |
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Download Ancient Christianity exemplified in the Private, Domestic, Social and Civil Life of the Primitive Christians, and in the original institutions, offices, ordinances, and rites of the Church Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle