The Early Church,9780140231991

The Early Church

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780140231991
ISBN10: 0140231994
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-10-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary

This revised and updated edition of the first volume of The Penguin History of the Church, examines the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries A.D., and the explosive force of its expansion throughout the Roman world.

Author Biography

Henry Chadwick was a Regius professor at both Oxford and Cambridge; head of Christ Church, Oxford, and Peterhouse, Cambridge; recipient of a honorary doctorate from Chicago, Harvard, Yale, and Uppsala; a member of the German Order of Merit; a fellow (former vice-president) of the British Academy; and a corresponding member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, and the Gottingen and Rhineland academies. He was made a knight in 1989.

Table of Contents

1 From Jerusalem to Rome The Jewish background - The earliest Church - The Gentile Church - Encounter with the Roman Empire
9(23)
2 Faith and Order The bonds of unity - Gnosticism - The Ministry and the Bible - Forms of the Ministry
32(22)
3 Expansion and Growth Causes of success - The geographical extension of the Church - The defence of the Faith
54(20)
4 Justin and Irenaeus Justin Martyr - Irenaeus
74(10)
5 Easter, the Monarchian Controversy, and Tertullian Easter - The Monarchian Controversy - Tertullian
84(10)
6 Clement of Alexandria and Origen Clement of Alexandria - Origen
94(22)
7 Church, State and Society in the Third Century The pagan revival and the persecution of Decius - Cyprian - The Great Persecution and its consequences
116(9)
8 Constantine and the Council of Nicaea
125(8)
9 The Arian Controversy after the Council of Nicaea From Nicaea to the death of Constantine - The Church under the sons of Constantine - From Julian to Theodosius I
133(19)
10 The Conflict of Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century
152(8)
11 Church, State and Society from Julian to Theodosius
160(14)
12 The Ascetic Movement
174(10)
13 The Controversy about Origen and the Tragedy of John Chrysostom
184(8)
14 The Problem of the Person of Christ Diodore, Theodore, and Apollinaris - Cyril and Nestorius - The `Monophysite' Council of Ephesus and the reaction at Chalcedon - The search for reconciliation - The doctrine of one will
192(21)
15 The Development of Latin Christian Thought Jerome and the beginnings of maturity - The conversion of Augustine - The Donatist schism and the problem of coercion - `The City of God' and the Pelagian controversy - The Holy Trinity
213(24)
16 The Papacy
237(10)
17 The Church and the Barbarians
247(11)
18 Worship and Art Liturgy - Daily offices - Early Church music - Christian art
258(27)
Conclusion 285(5)
Suggestions for Further Reading 290

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