The Early Church books

Provides snapshots of persons and times that form part of the church's legacy. The first five centuries were essential...  Read More >>

But some of its influence persisted all over Europe, and it had a large share in shaping the culture that ultimately...  Read More >>

Lords of the Scrolls analyzes ancient literary sources to show how biblical and gospel scribes borrowed and imitated...  Read More >>

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Presenting a historical-critical approach, this title examines each individual section of ""Acts of the Apostles""...  Read More >>

Edition of complex and important early liturgical work.  Read More >>

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This second edition makes the text easier to understand; provides a fuller bibliography; and brings thinking on...  Read More >>

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Takes its cue from Augustine's theory of the liberal arts to explore the larger question of how the Bible became...  Read More >>

The fourth century was pivotal in the evolution of the feasts and fasts of late antique Christian communities. While...  Read More >>

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Christianity began in the large and fertile Fayoum oasis of Egypt's Western Desert as early as the third century,...  Read More >>

The greatest Christian split of all has been that between east and west, between Roman Catholic and eastern Orthodox....  Read More >>

Between the Councils of Nicaea (AD 325) and Constantinople (AD 381), the Trinitarian controversy turned on a heated...  Read More >>

"This text assumes that Eusebius' story of Constantine's conversion was fiction or a mistake, based upon the Emperor's...  Read More >>

This text explores the work of Dhuoda of Provence as an example of the theology of the early middle ages. It examines...  Read More >>

Historical survey covering early church persecution of Christians through the triumph of Constantine.  Read More >>

God and Creation is a new translation of St. Thomas Aquinas's treatment of these subjects in the Summa Theologiae,...  Read More >>

Marius Victorinus, a professor of rhetoric in mid-fourth-century Rome, wrote the first Latin commentaries on the...  Read More >>

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Leopold-Franzens-Universiteat, Innsbruck, 2003/04.  Read More >>

The seventh volume of this companion series is devoted to the writings ascribed to Paul but widely thought not to...  Read More >>

Offers an analysis of Gregory's writings about the divine persons. This book shows that the fourth-century theologian...  Read More >>

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