The early church
By: by W.H.C. Frend
Series: Knowing Christianity; Knowing Christianity
Publisher: Lippincott
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Copyright date: 1965
Subjects: Primitive and early church; Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Rome and the Mediterranean world; title: Rome and first-century Judaism; title: The primitive community 41-70; title: The old Israel and the new 70-135; title: The Gnostics. Marcion 130-80; title: A generation of crisis 160-85; title: Three cities : Rome, Carthage and Alexandria 185-235; title: Origen; title: Decius-Valerian : a decade of persecution 249-59; title: The dawn of the new era 260-303; title: The Great Persecution 303-12; title: East and west to Nicaea; title: The Arian controversy 325-60; title: Julian the Apostate 361-3; title: The triumph of orthodoxy 363-82; title: Ambrose of Milan and Theodosius 381-95; title: Asceticism and the monastic movement in the fourth century; title: St. Augustine of Hippo 354-430; title: The conflicts of Eastern Christendom 381-431; title: The development of the papacy from Damasus to Celestine 378-440; title: Leo and Chalcedon 440-61; title: Church and people from Constantine to Leo.