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020			_a9780300125818 (ci : alk. paper)
020			_a030012581X (ci : alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn317361785
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050	0	0	_aBR162.3 _b.F73 2009
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100	1		_aFreeman, Charles, _d1947-
245	1	2	_aA new history of early Christianity / _cCharles Freeman.
260			_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _cc2009.
300			_axvi, 377 p., [16] p. of plates : _bill., facsims, maps ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPart one: Beginnings. A trial ; The seedbed : Judaism in the first century AD ; Jesus before the Gospels ; Breaking away : the first Christianities ; What did Paul achieve? ; The letter to the Hebrews ; Fifty years on : the Gospel writers reflect on Jesus ; John and the Jerusalem Christians ; Creating a New Testament ; No second coming : the search for stability -- Part two: Becoming Christian. Toeholds in a wider empire ; Open borders : the overlapping worlds of Christians and Jews ; Was there a gnostic challenge? ; The idea of a church ; To compromise or reject : confronting the material world -- Interlude one: the earliest Christian art -- Celsus confronts the Christians -- The challenge of Greek philosophy -- Origen and early Christian scholarship -- New beginnings : the emergence of a Latin Christianity -- Victims or volunteers : Christian martyrs -- The spread of Christian communities -- Part three: The imperial church. The motives of Constantine ; Debating the nature of God ; The stifling of Christian diversity ; The assault on paganism ; 'No one is honoured before him' : the rise of the bishop -- Interlude two: the art of imperial Christianity -- An obsession with the flesh -- The end of optimism : Augustine and the consequences of sin -- Divine but human -- The closing of the schools -- A fragile church : Christianity and the collapse of the western empire -- Faith, certainty, and the unknown God.
650		0	_aChurch history _yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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