More than Conquerors examines the origin of the early Christian Church beginning on the Day of Pentecost down to the later years of the fifth century. This is a crucial period during which the early Christians had to contend with opposition from false teaching within its ranks and the brutal persecutions of the Roman Empire from without. Notwithstanding these challenges the early Christians were able to agree the books which make up the New Testament and the key doctrines of the Trinity and the eternal deity and humanity of Jesus, producing historic creeds which are still express the very heart and centre of global Christian faith. The book demonstrates how early Christian leaders and theologians utilized and contextualized apostolic teaching and biblical and literature in the development of their lives, disciplines, worship and sacraments. The Emperor Constantine's conversion in 312 brought an end to the persecutions and ultimately led to Christianity becoming the established religion of the Roman Empire. The spread of Early Christianity was remarkable by any standards. The early Christians had in a real sense become "More than Conquerors", but that too brought its problems, albeit of a different nature. This is a book which greatly enhance all readers in the knowledge and understanding of their Christian faith, doctrine and understanding of the Church.
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More than Conquerors
The Churches and the Early Christians in the Roman Empire from Jerusalem to Chalcedon
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The Churches and the Early Christians in the Roman Empire from Jerusalem to Chalcedon
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Social HistoryTable of contents
- Preface
- Born of the Holy Spirit: The beginnings of the Christian Church
- Into all the world: Compassionate evangelism and the expansion of early Christianity in the Roman Empire
- The blood of the martyrs: Triumphant Christians in times of persecution
- Uniting a divided house: Persuading Novatians and Donatists to be more lenient with those who denied the Faith
- Deliverance from evil within: Overcoming Gnosticism within the Church
- On solid ground: A faith founded on apostolic teaching and the formation of the New Testament
- Faith in a tri-personal God: Monarchianism and explanations of God as a Trinity
- Guided by biblical scholars and theologians: Tertullian, Cyprian, Clement and Origen
- The Emperor is converted! Constantine and the Christianization of the Empire
- Athanasius versus the world: The defeat of Arianism and the establishment of the Nicaean faith that Jesus is fully God
- Wise men from the East: The Cappadocian Fathers and their caring Trinitarian faith and spirituality
- From Constantinople to Chalcedon: The struggle to assert that Jesus is both fully God and fully human
- The call of the desert: Monastic communities, hospitality, faith and scholarship
- The furthest corner of the Empire: Christianity in Britain and Ireland
- More than conquerors: Churches and the Christians in the mid-fifth century
- Bibliography
- Timelines
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