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The early church / W.H.C. Frend.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Philadelphia : Fortress Press, 1982.Edition: 1st Fortress Press edDescription: xi, 273 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0800616154 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.1 19
LOC classification:
  • BR 165 .F75 1982
Contents:
Contents:
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 185-235 -- 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 -- 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 fourth 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.
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1965. With new pref.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 241-242.

Contents:

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 185-235 --
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 --
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 fourth 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.