A History of the First Christians
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A History of the First Christians

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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A History of the First Christians

About this book

This work provides a survey of the history of the earliest Christian church in the period up to the fall of Jerusalem. It concentrates on: the figure of Paul; judicious and critical use of information in the Book of Acts; Judaizing versions of Christianity; and the Johannine tradition. The approach steers a middle way between an over-simplified account which fails to warn students where scholarly opinion is divided, and an in-depth academic study which attempts to document and discuss every hypothesis. Wedderburn focuses on aspects of central importance: the changing shape of church life and developing Christianity in relation to the Roman Empire and to Judaism. This book seeks to draw together and make more readily accessible many new insights gained from an enormous range of recent scholarly studies in German and English, and places them in the context of a more general account.

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Information

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2004
Print ISBN
9780567084132
eBook ISBN
9780567144065
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1. Introduction
  4. 2. The First Beginnings
  5. 3. Stephen and His Group
  6. 4. The Spread of Christianity
  7. 5. Paul – the Hidden Years
  8. 6. Agreement and Strife
  9. 7. Paul the Missionary
  10. 8. Judaizing Christianity
  11. 9. Pauline Christianity after Paul
  12. 10. Johannine Christianity
  13. 11. The Church in the Roman Empire
  14. Postscript
  15. Notes
  16. Abbreviations
  17. Select Bibliography
  18. Index of Primary Sources
  19. Index of Authors (Secondary Literature)
  20. Index of Subjects