Christianity: The First 400 years
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Christianity: The First 400 years

The forging of a world faith

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Christianity: The First 400 years

The forging of a world faith

About this book

The first 400 years after the death of Christ saw huge developments and changes in the emerging faith.

Christianity spread from Jerusalem to much of the known world; it became the official religion of the British empire; its key texts were written and its core ideas and beliefs were shaped and formalized. Much of this happened under huge pressure, from both within and without.

Jonathan Hill charts the fascinating history of this crucial period in the development of Christianity. He shows how and why certain ideas triumphed over others; introduces the key figures, both within the faith and among its opponents, and their intellectual struggles; covers the main battles, often bitterly fought, both of ideas and of weapons; describes the lives of ordinary Christians and their worship and how each influenced the other.

Occassionally murky, often thrilling and always compelling, the story Hill tells recounts the ways in which a new religion - centred on a single man executed in the Roman Middle East - first struggled, and then spread, to become the dominant belief system of the world.

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Information

Publisher
Lion Books
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780745956312
eBook ISBN
9780745957906

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT
  4. CONTENTS
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. 1 JESUS AND THE FIRST CHRISTIANS
  7. 2 FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT
  8. 3 OPPOSITION AND PERSECUTION
  9. 4 THE CHURCH IN THE EMPIRE
  10. 5 CHRISTIANS IN A HOSTILE WORLD
  11. 6 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY
  12. 7 HERESY AND ORTHODOXY
  13. 8 THE CHRISTIAN EMPIRE
  14. 9 A DIVIDED CHURCH
  15. 10 THE FIRST MONKS
  16. 11 THE OFFICIAL CHURCH
  17. EPILOGUE
  18. NOTES
  19. FURTHER READING