Title: The rise of Christian beliefs
Subtitle: the thought world of early Christians
Description: Heikki Raisanen offers a historical survey of the roots and first growth of the thoughts, values, and practices of the early Christians and explains the evolution of Christian belief in terms of vital adaptations to specific challenges. An ideal textbook for university introductory courses on the New Testament and Early Christianity, The Rise of Christian Beliefs offers chapters discussing "paradigmatic events" - the life and death of Jesus and experiences of Easter, principal figures and groups, last things and afterlife, savior figures and the human condition, ethnicity, identity, and morality, and ritual community life. - Publisher.
Subjects: Origin, Doctrinal Theology, Christianity, Church history, History, Primitive and early church, Kristendom, Geistesgeschichte, Historia, Early church, Frühchristentum, Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Theology, doctrinal, history, early church, ca. 30-600, Christianity, origin
Time periods: Early church, ca. 30-600, Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600