The Early Church books

This volume aims to create—in Walter Benjamin’s terms—dialectical images from early Christian texts and the twentieth...  Read More >>

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This workbook is designed to accompany the fifth edition of Bruce Shelley’s history of global Christianity, Church...  Read More >>

Discipleship - that being a Christian is about learning and discovering, acting and responding, choosing and collaborating...  Read More >>

Contemplative reading is a spiritual practice developed by Christian monks in sixth- and seventh-century Mesopotamia....  Read More >>

Traces the development of the portrayal of the Virgin Mary in Byzantium between c.400 and 1000, especially as expressed...  Read More >>

With this volume twenty-seven friends and colleagues of Joseph Verheyden, Professor of New Testament at KU Leuven,...  Read More >>

What conceptual frameworks did the inhabitants of early monastic communities carry into relationships of spiritual...  Read More >>

It has rarely been recognized that the Christian writers of the first millennium pursued an ambitious and exciting...  Read More >>

The Book of Kells is traditionally thought to have been made by an extensive team of scribes and artists. Using...  Read More >>

The Book of Kells is traditionally thought to have been made by an extensive team of scribes and artists. Using...  Read More >>

The present volume contains a selection of papers read at the ninth international conference of the Leuven Centre...  Read More >>

This investigation aims to demonstrate how the concept of heresy emerges in the work of Justin Martyr. First published...  Read More >>

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Stephen Emmel, professor at the University of Münster since 1996, has devoted much of his work to researching the...  Read More >>

This is the first integrative, historically grounded book to be written about the Exeter Book of Old English poetry....  Read More >>

This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean...  Read More >>

"This volume offers a collection of twenty-two essays on ""troubling texts” in the New Testament. They are troubling...  Read More >>

The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian offers a new assessment of the Roman Emperor's brief but impactful rule....  Read More >>

In this book, John A. McGuckin reviews and assesses the monumental influence that Origen of Alexandria has exercised...  Read More >>

In his letters, the church scholar Jerome describes a deep inner rift between Virgil and the gospels, between Cicero...  Read More >>

Discipleship - that being a Christian is about learning and discovering, acting and responding, choosing and collaborating...  Read More >>

The purpose of this study is to ascertain the textual identity of the text of Acts as used by Origen (ca. 185-254...  Read More >>

Numerous ancient Christian authors puts the concepts of regret and reversal at the center of their writings. These...  Read More >>