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Second-Century Christianity

Name: Second-Century Christianity
Brand: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781481314152
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BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781481314152

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Edited by Michael F. Bird, Scott Harrower
Imprint: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: February 1, 2026
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
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Pages: 277

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The second century of the Common Era was a time of significant transition, innovation, and upheaval for the Greco-Roman world. In the midst of great societal changes the relatively new religious movement of Christianity began to find its footing as a coherent body-though undeniably marked by incredible diversity of thought, expression, and practice-as it moved beyond its Judaic roots and took on a more Hellenistic tenor, albeit unevenly. This formative era for the church has unfortunately received little attention from a comprehensive scholarly perspective; research is sporadic, fragmented, and often focused on the major texts of the early apologists, hardly representative of the full swath of the various forms of Christianity around the Mediterranean.

Second-Century Christianity aims to fill that gap and provide a wide-ranging guide to the key features of the early church in the context of the Roman Empire at its height. Leading international scholars bring to light material evidence, neglected sources, apologists and theologians, heretical groups, apocryphal writings, persecution and martyrdom traditions, formation of the biblical canon, and ecclesiastical growth. Taken together, these essays present a rich and dynamic portrait of Christianity in this pivotal time period, one that takes seriously the variegated contours of the developing faith. Second-Century Christianity will prove an authoritative resource for researchers as well as teachers of Christian history and historical theology.

Michael F. Bird is Deputy Principal and Lecturer in Theology at Ridley College.

Scott Harrower is Lecturer in Christian Thought at Ridley College.

1 The Christian Second Century: Energetic Innovations and Legacies

Scott Harrower

2 An Introduction to the Second Century: Reading God, Reading Books, and Reading Each Other

D. Jeffrey Bingham

3 Second-Century Christian Women

Edwina Murphy

4 Gallic, Greek, Asian, and Unknown Texts

Kirsten H. Mackerras and Jonathon Lookadoo

5 Apologists, Heresiologists, and First Theologians (Preliminary Issues, the City of Rome)

Scott Harrower

6 Apologists, Heresiologists, and First Theologians (Antioch, Smyrna, Alexandria)

Scott Harrower

7 Emerging Diversity: "Other" Christianities

David A. Evans and Paul McKechnie

8 Jewish Responses and Pagan References to Christianity

Warren Campbell and David Lincicum

9 The Second Century According to Eusebius in the Fourth Century

Michael J. Svigel

10 How Much of the New Testament Should Be Dated to the Second Century?

Michael F. Bird

11 Early Christian Letters

Janelle Peters

12 Nag Hammadi Codices as a Window into Second-Century Christianity

Christine Jacobi

13 Jesus Books, Gospel Fragments, and Gospel Harmonies

Markus Bockmuehl and Jacob A. Rodriguez

14 Apocalypses in the Second Century

Joerg Frey

15 Early Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles

Tobias Nicklas

16 Martyrologies and Second-Century Christianity

Lynn H. Cohick and Samuel S. Cho

17 Didactic and Pastoral Writings

Jonathon Lookadoo

18 The Significance and Authority of Apostolic Texts as Scripture in the Second Century

Eckhard J. Schnabel

19 Christian Papyri and Literary Culture

Paul Foster

20 New Testament Manuscripts Possibly from the Second Century

Michael J. Kruger

21 Lost (and Found) Second-Century Christian Writings

Stephen C. Carlson

22 The Rule of Faith and Emerging Symbolum Apostolorum: Origin, Function, Structure

Tomas Bokedal

23 Sources of Second-Century Worship

Daniel Cardo and Elizabeth Klein

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