04052cam a2200637Mi 4500 ocn822890102 OCoLC 20200709055710.0 m d cr |n| 120530s2012 ctu ob 001 0 eng d CDX CDX OCLCO YDXCP E7B N$T 820632063 0300188986 (electronic bk.) 9780300188981 (electronic bk.) 0300118848 9780300118841 9781283906449 1283906449 (OCoLC)822890102 (OCoLC)820632063 518165 (N$T) 421894 MIL BR162.3 .W55 2012eb REL 108020 bisacsh REL 015000 bisacsh 270 23 REL015000 REL108020 HIS002000 bisacsh N$TA Wilken, Robert Louis, 1936- The first thousand years [electronic resource] : a global history of Christianity / Robert Louis Wilken. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012. 1212 1 online resource (pages cm) text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. Beginning in Jerusalem -- Ephesus, Rome, and Edessa : the spread of Christianity -- The making of a Christian community -- Divisions within -- Constructing a catacomb -- A learned faith : Origen of Alexandria -- Persecution : Cyprian of Carthage -- A Christian emperor : Constantine -- The Council of Nicaea and the Christian creed -- Monasticism -- A Christian Jerusalem -- Emperor Julian, the Jews, and Christians -- Bishop and Emperor : Ambrose and Theodosius -- Architecture and art -- Music and worship -- The sick, the aged, and the poor : the birth of hospitals -- The bishop of Rome as pope -- An ordered Christian society : canon law -- Augustine of Hippo -- The great controversy over Christ -- Egypt and the Copts; Nubia -- African Zion : Ethiopia -- Syriac-speaking Christians : the Church of the East -- Armenia and Georgia -- Central Asia, China, and India -- A Christian empire : Justinian -- New beginnings in the West -- Latin Christianity spreads north -- The SACKING of Jerusalem : more controversy over Christ -- No God but God : the rise of Islam -- Images and the making of Byzantium -- Arabic-speaking Christians -- Christians under Islam : Egypt and North Africa -- Christians under Islam : Spain -- An emperor in the West : Charlemagne -- Christianity among the Slavs. "A narrative account of the history of Christianity from its beginning to the end of the first millennium. The principal theme is the slow drama of the building of a Christian civilization. A major theme is the mission of Christians among different peoples in many regions of the ancient world: Ethiopia, Nubia, Armenia, Georgia, Persia, central Asia, India, China as well as among the Germanic peoples of northern Europe and the Slavic peoples in the Balkans and Russia. The rise and spread of Islam is integral to the story"-- Provided by publisher. Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Church history Middle Ages, 600-1500. RELIGION / Christian Church / History bisacsh RELIGION / Christianity / History bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: (DLC)2012021755 9781283906449 http://lib.myilibrary.com?id=421894 http://site.ebrary.com/id/10629463 ebrary EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=518165 Coutts Information Services COUT 24467806 YBP Library Services YANK 9935526 ebrary EBRY ebr10629463 EBSCOhost EBSC 518165 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 52270 52270