Overview

Church and Society in Documents, 100-600 AD illustrates the diversity of early Christian literature, with its many genres, its many cultural settings, and its many purposes and functions. The documents included in the volume are truly primary sources, witnesses in the first six centuries of Christianity. In them, students can read the very words of early Christians.

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Author:   Alan Hayes
Publisher:   Canadian Scholars
Imprint:   Canadian Scholars
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9781551300832

ISBN 10:   1551300834
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   30 October 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

* Introduction* Chapter 1: The Pliny-Trajan Correspondence* Chapter 2 - Didache - Ignatius, To the Ephesians* Chapter 3 - Gospel of Thomas* Chapter 4 - Justin, Second Apology* Chapter 5 - Martyrdom of Perpetua* Chapter 6 - Hippolytus? Apostolic Tradition?* Chapter 7 - Origen, ""First Homily on the Song of Songs""* Chapter 8 - Cyprian, Treatise to Demetrianus* Chapter 9 - Acts of the Council of Nicea* Chapter 10 - Gregory Nazianzen, Letters 101, 102, 202 (Against the Apollinarians)* Chapter 11 - Ambrose, Letters 20, 21* Chapter 12 - John Crysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of St. John, 62* Chapter 13 - Paulinus of Nola, Letter 29* Chapter 14 - Augustine of Hippo, Letter 211 (""The Rule"")* Chapter 15 - Patrick, Confession* Chapter 16 - Pope Leo I, ""The Tome""* Chapter 17 - Antonius, The LIfe and Daily Mode of Living of Blessed Simeon the Stylite* Chapter 18 - The Penitential of Columbanus

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Alan L. Hayes is Professor of Church History in the Bishops Frederick and Heber Wilkinson Chair, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.

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