The Making of Orthodoxy
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Henry Chadwick
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780521892513
Subjects: Christian theology; History of religion; Religious; Religion - Theology; Religion; Philosophy; Theology; Religion / Philosophy
First sentence: Henry Chadwick's inaugural lecture as Regius Professor at Oxford sketched out, economically and elegantly, some aspects of the problem confronting every historian of early Christian thought, the problem of how to discern and define the self-perception of the first Christian communities: how, with reference to what, did they define themselves?