Rebecca Lyman

Early Christian Traditions (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this sixth volume of The New Church's Teaching Series, Rebecca Lyman introduces us to the world of the early church. Beginning with the Jewish, Greek, and Roman cultures in which the first followers of Jesus lived and worshiped, she traces the growth of the Christian church's theology, worship, leadership, and ethics through its first six centuries, ending with Augustine of Hippo. Early Christian Traditions offers perceptive insights into the early church's intense conflicts that reveal the often thin line between orthodoxy and heresy, between true and false teachers, and among the many competing versions of Christianity. Lyman describes the early church's "family quarrels"-Gnosticism, Donatism, Arianism-as well as the theological, political, and linguistic issues that went into the making of the great creeds and established the apostolic tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461660569
• Artikelnr.: 38313502

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Lyman is an Episcopal priest and the Samuel Garrett Professor of Church History at The Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California. A popular teacher and lecturer on church history, she has also been a translator for The New American Bible. Her research and writing focus on the early history and definition of orthodoxy and heresy.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Anglican Identity and Christian Traditions
Chapter 2 The World of the Early Church: Romans, Jews, and Christians
Chapter 3 Apostolic Christianity: The Gnostic Controversies
Chapter 4 Christianity and Social Crisis: Persecution, Unity, and Holiness
Chapter 5 Imperial Christianity: The Desert and the City
Chapter 6 Who is Jesus? Early Images of Christ
Chapter 7 Who is God? Trinitarian Orthodoxy from Nicaea to Augustine
Chapter 8 The Church in Late Antiquity: Saints and Sinners in the City of
God
Part 9 Resources
Part 10 Questions for Discussion