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Chu rch historians have long known and appreciated Christianity's global history. Until recently, however, introductory textbooks on the history of Christianity focused almost exclusively on Europe and North America. Robert Bruce Mullins's A Short Wo...

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Allegory and Event
A Study of the Sources and Significance of Origen's Interpretation of Scripture

By R. P.C Hanson

In this classic work in patristic studies, R. P. C. Hanson elucidates the views of the third-century theologian Origen on the nature and interpretaion of Scripture. The introduction by a leading Origen scholar sets Hanson's work in its context and ex...

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Creeds of the Churches, Third Edition
A Reader in Christian Doctrine from the Bible to the Present

By John H. Leith

Creeds of the Churches offers, in one comprehensive volume, the major Christian statements of faith from biblical times to the present. The third edition has been updated to include the Athanasian Creed, the London Confession, the Frankfurt Declarati...

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Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?
The New Testament Evidence

By James D.G. Dunn

To answer the title question effectively requires more than the citing of a few texts; we must first acknowledge that the way to the answer is more difficult than it appears and recognize that the answer may be less straightforward than many would li...

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Forgotten Scriptures
The Selection and Rejection of Early Religious Writings

By Lee Martin McDonald

We know that the early Christian church had a variety of scriptures and other source material that informed their faith and shaped their thinking. We also know that after a few centuries the church decided to keep the twenty-seven books of our presen...

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From Jesus to the Church
The First Christian Generation

By Craig A. Evans

Did Jesus intend to found a church separate from Judaism? Who were the very first followers of Jesus? And how did a clash between two families—the family of Jesus on one hand and the family of high priest Annas and their aristocratic allies on the ot...

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Gods and the One God

By Robert M. Grant

This volume in the Library of Early Christianity series explores the early Christian movement, especially as it is described in the book of Acts, and uses information about other religions being practiced during the same time period to fill in the st...

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Her Image of Salvation
Female Saviors and Formative Christianity

By Gail P.C. Streete

This book examines the image of the savior and the experience of salvation, two concepts that are inextricably entwined. Gail Streete asserts that Christianity set aside female images of salvation by emphasizing the maleness of Jesus. She draws on so...

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Heretics
The Other Side of Early Christianity

By Gerd Ludemann

According to the commonly held view, early Christianity was a time of great harmony, and heresy emerged only at a later stage. To the contrary, Gerd Ludemann argues that the time from the first Christian communities to the end of the second century w...

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Holy Writings, Sacred Text
The Canon in Early Christianity

By John Barton

An internationally respected biblical scholar investigates the origins of the Christian canon. John Barton explores the reasons behind the development of the New Testament and pursues the historical factors involved in combining these books with the ...

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Moral Exhortation
A Greco-Roman Sourcebook

By Abraham J. Malherbe

This volume in the Library of Early Christianity series presents primary documents that reveal insights about the ethics and morality of Greco-Roman culture. In so doing, this book provides a foundation for understanding the ethical contexts in which...

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Readings in the History of Christian Theology, Volume 1, Revised Edition
From Its Beginnings to the Eve of the Reformation

By William C. Placher

William C. Placher and Derek R. Nelson compile significant passages written by the most important Christian thinkers, from the early church through the Middle Ages, and up to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Illustrating the major theologians,...

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Redeemed Bodies
Women Martyrs in Early Christianity

By Gail P.C. Streete

SEVENTYFIVEPERCENT>Why do religious people choose paths that lead to their deaths as martyrs? Why do some who are killed for their faith become known and revered while others do not? Gail Streete asks these important and disturbing questions in the c...

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The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric

By David E. Aune

The Westminster Dictionary of New and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric is an authoritative reference that details the various literary and rhetorical forms found in the New Testament and in the literature of the early Christian church. David A...

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