The End Of Ancient Christianity

Author : R. A. Markus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521339490
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Ancient Christianity written by R. A. Markus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the nature of the changes that transformed the Christian world from the fourth to the end of the sixth century.

Author : Robert Austin Markus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Ancient Christianity written by Robert Austin Markus and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Austin Markus
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472109975
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Ancient Christianity written by Robert Austin Markus and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen essays explore the end of ancient Christianity

Author : Virginia Burrus
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451419465
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Ancient Christianity written by Virginia Burrus and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The particular excitement of this volume lies in its focus on the everyday realities of Christians' lives in the era of Christian ascendancy and Roman decline. Popular fiction, childrearing and toys, rituals of inclusion, the beginning of veneration of saints and shunning of heretics, the ascetic impulse, food practices—all these and more lend color and texture to the story of a "people's" Christianity in this formative stage.

Author : Robert A. Markus
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268162034
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and the Secular written by Robert A. Markus and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Christianity has been marked by tension between ideas of sacred and secular, their shifting balance, and their conflict. In Christianity and the Secular, Robert A. Markus examines the place of the secular in Christianity, locating the origins of the concept in the New Testament and early Christianity and describing its emergence as a problem for Christianity following the recognition of Christianity as an established religion, then the officially enforced religion, of the Roman Empire. Markus focuses especially on the new conditions engendered by the Christianization of the Roman Empire. In the period between the apostolic age and Constantine, the problem of the relation between Christianity and secular society and culture was suppressed for the faithful; Christians saw themselves as sharply distinct in, if not separate from, the society of their non-Christian fellows. Markus argues that when the autonomy of the secular realm came under threat in the Christianised Roman Empire after Constantine, Christians were forced to confront the problem of adjusting themselves to the culture and society of the new regime. Markus identifies Augustine of Hippo as the outstanding critic of the ideology of a Christian empire that had developed by the end of the fourth century and in the time of the Theodosian emperors, and as the principal defender of a place for the secular within a Christian interpretation of the world and of history. Markus traces the eclipse of this idea at the end of antiquity and during the Christian Middle Ages, concluding with its rehabilitation by Pope John XXIII and the second Vatican Council. Of interest to scholars of religion, theology, and patristics, Markus's genealogy of an authentic Christian concept of the secular is sure to generate widespread discussion.

Author : Ellen Muehlberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190937874
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moment of Reckoning written by Ellen Muehlberger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late antiquity saw a proliferation of Christian texts dwelling on the emotions and physical sensations of dying, not as a heroic martyr in a public square or a judge's court, but as an individual, at home in a bed or in a private room. In sermons, letters, and ascetic traditions, late ancient Christians imagined the last minutes of life and the events that followed death in elaborate detail. The majority of these imagined scenarios linked the quality of the experience to the moral state of the person who died. Death was no longer the "happy ending," in Judith Perkins's words, it had been to Christians of the first three centuries, an escape from the difficult and painful world. Instead, death was most often imagined as a terrifying, desperate experience. This book is the first to trace how, in late ancient Christianity, death came to be thought of as a moment of reckoning: a physical ordeal whose pain is followed by an immediate judgment of one's actions by angels and demons and, after that, fitting punishment. Because late ancient Christian culture valued the use of the imagination as a religious tool and because Christian teachers encouraged Christians to revisit the prospect of their deaths often, this novel description of death was more than an abstract idea. Rather, its appearance ushered in a new ethical sensibility among Christians, in which one's death was to be imagined frequently and anticipated in detail. This was, at first glance, meant as a tool for individuals: preachers counted on the fact that becoming aware of a judgment arriving at the end of one's life tends to sharpen one's scruples. But, as this book argues, the change in Christian sensibility toward death did not just affect individuals. Once established, it shifted the ethics of Christianity as a tradition. This is because death repeatedly and frequently imagined as the moment of reckoning created a fund of images and ideas about what constituted a human being and how variances in human morality should be treated. This had significant effects on the Christian assumption of power in late antiquity, especially in the case of the capacity to authorize violence against others. The thinking about death traced here thus contributed to the seemingly paradoxical situation in which Christians proclaimed their identity with a crucified person, yet were willing to use force against their ideological opponents.

Author : Johannes Zachhuber
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198859953
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics written by Johannes Zachhuber and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has rarely been recognized that the Christian writers of the first millennium pursued an ambitious and exciting philosophical project alongside their engagement in the doctrinal controversies of their age. The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics offers, for the first time, a full analysis of this Patristic philosophy. It shows how it took its distinctive shape in the late fourth century and gives an account of its subsequent development until the time of John of Damascus. The book falls into three main parts. The first starts with an analysis of the philosophical project underlying the teaching of the Cappadocian fathers, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus. This philosophy, arguably the first distinctively Christian theory of being, soon became near-universally shared in Eastern Christianity. Just a few decades after the Cappadocians, all sides in the early Christological controversy took its fundamental tenets for granted. Its application to the Christological problem thus appeared inevitable. Yet it created substantial conceptual problems. Parts two and three describe in detail how these problems led to a series of increasingly radical modifications of the Cappadocian philosophy. In part two, Zachhuber explores the miaphysite opponents of the Council of Chalcedon, while in part three he discusses the defenders of the Council from the early sixth to the eighth century. Through this overview, the book reveals this period as one of remarkable philosophical creativity, fecundity, and innovation.

Author : Dr Dwain Kitchens
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781625096777
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Christianity written by Dr Dwain Kitchens and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Christianity: The Essentials is a foundational study for new believers and seasoned Christians alike. New believers will discover the historic doctrines of our Christian faith and learn practical principles to navigate life. Seasoned believers will be reinvigorated, encouraged, and equipped with a biblical basis to defend their faith. This resource can be used as new members, new believers, small group, or Sunday School curriculum. The twelve teachings include: the Bible, the deity of Jesus Christ, salvation basics, the person of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Church, spiritual disciplines, spiritual gifts, spiritual warfare, the End Times, and apostasy. As a Spirit-filled pastor, the author believes there is a need to get back to the basic teachings of the early church. Dr. Kitchens presents biblical truths from a Spirit-filled, Pentecostal perspective reinforced with Scripture. Having pastored Southern Baptist churches for 22 years and graduating from two Baptist seminaries, the author provides a thoroughly biblical and balanced approach. "This book on Christianity is a book on time and must be read by all leaders and congregations alike." Colin Cooper, Leader of Cathedral House, Chairman of Ministers Fellowship Europe "This book is a masterpiece...It makes the truths of the Bible come alive and easily understood." Dick Iverson, Founder of Ministers Fellowship International "I highly recommend Ancient Christianity: The Essentials....a masterful job making the basics beautiful while providing a great discipling resource for pastors and leaders and for those wanting to grow in their faith." Pastor Mike Servello, Founding Pastor Redeemer Church and Founder & CEO of Compassion Coalition Utica, NY "Relevant to the 21 st century...I had a hard time putting it down...deals with the basics of the human quest for spiritual answers." Chin Do Kham, D.Min., Ph.D., President Global Outreach and Community Development

Author : Catherine Nixey
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544800931
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Darkening Age written by Catherine Nixey and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator, Observer, and BBC History Magazine, this bold new history of the rise of Christianity shows how its radical followers helped to annihilate Greek and Roman civilizations. The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to "one true faith." Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyrs' deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek and mild, they were violent, ruthless, and fundamentally intolerant. Unlike the polytheistic world, in which the addition of one new religion made no fundamental difference to the old ones, this new ideology stated not only that it was the way, the truth, and the light but that, by extension, every single other way was wrong and had to be destroyed. From the first century to the sixth, those who didn't fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every possible way: social, legal, financial, and physical. Their altars were upturned and their temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces, and their priests killed. It was an annihilation. Authoritative, vividly written, and utterly compelling, this is a remarkable debut from a brilliant young historian.

Author : Johannes Zachhuber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019260385X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics written by Johannes Zachhuber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has rarely been recognized that the Christian writers of the first millennium pursued an ambitious and exciting philosophical project alongside their engagement in the doctrinal controversies of their age. The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics offers, for the first time, a full analysis of this Patristic philosophy. It shows how it took its distinctive shape in the late fourth century and gives an account of its subsequent development until the time of John of Damascus. The book falls into three main parts. The first starts with an analysis of the philosophical project underlying the teaching of the Cappadocian fathers, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus. This philosophy, arguably the first distinctively Christian theory of being, soon became near-universally shared in Eastern Christianity. Just a few decades after the Cappadocians, all sides in the early Christological controversy took its fundamental tenets for granted. Its application to the Christological problem thus appeared inevitable. Yet it created substantial conceptual problems. Parts two and three describe in detail how these problems led to a series of increasingly radical modifications of the Cappadocian philosophy. In part two, Zachhuber explores the miaphysite opponents of the Council of Chalcedon, while in part three he discusses the defenders of the Council from the early sixth to the eighth century. Through this overview, the book reveals this period as one of remarkable philosophical creativity, fecundity, and innovation.