The Making of Orthodoxy
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Henry Chadwick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 24, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780521351881
Subjects: History of religion; Theology, Doctrinal; Doctrinal Theology; Religion; Chadwick, Henry,; Chadwick, Henry; Religion / Philosophy; 1920-; Early church, ca. 30-600; History
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?