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The Early Church

From the Beginnings to 461
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Frend's masterful survey, here presented with a new Preface and updated bibliographies, traces the historical and theological development of the Christian church from apostolic times through the fifth century. Frend charts the tumultuous and momentous process by which an obscure Palestinian Jewish sect became the official religion of the Roman Empire and achieved, despite conflict, schism, and heresy, a firm organizational, liturgical and doctrinal identity.
W. H. C. Frend, perhaps the most respected living historian of early Christianity, was Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Preface Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE: Rome and the Mediterranean World Rome and First-Century Judaism The Primitive Community 41-70 The Old Israel and the New 70-135 The Gnostics. Marcion 130-80 A Generation of Crisis 160-85 Three Cities: Rome, Carthage and Alexandria 185-234 Origen Decius-Valerian: A Decade of Persecution 249-59 The Dawn of the New Era 260-303 The Great Persecution 303-12 East and West to Nicaea PART TWO: The Arian Controversy 325-60 Julian the Apostate 361-3 The Triumph of Orthodoxy 363-82 Ambrose of Milan and Theodosius 381-95 Asceticism and the Monastic Movement in the Fouth Century St. Augustine of Hippo 354-430 The Conflicts of Eastern Christendom 381-431 The Development of the Papacy from Damasus to Celestine 378-440 Leo and Chalcedon 440-61 Church and People from Constantine to Leo A Bibliography of General Works on Church History Chronological Guide: Events Relevant to Church History to 461 Notes Index
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