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This volume covers the geographical spread of Christianity in its first three centuries. It is arranged by continents - Asia, Europe and Africa - to show the gradual development of Christian communities down to the Council of Nicaea in 325. The area surveyed stretches from Wales to the borders of India, and from the Northern coasts of the Black Sea to the plains of Morocco. The result is a picture not only of the outward development of early Christianity but of the variety that existed within it as well.

Church history --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- 27 "00/02" --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/02" --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine)

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There can be no doubt that there is a link between early Christian statements on human dignity and the corresponding modern concept, as it appears ever more frequently in current bioethical debates. This study attempts to throw light on the surprisingly complex process of the emergence of such a Christian concept of human dignity in antiquity and portrays it as a process governed by contradictions and antagonisms: between biblical and platonic anthropology; between a platonic and a stoic perception of humanity; between gnostic and antignostic cosmology; between biblically based criticism of human culture on the one hand and heilsgeschichtlichem cultural optimism on the other hand; between Greek and Roman thinking. This history of the idea of the “dignity of man” is being recounted taking into consideration the complex matrix of Christian theory and practice (including issues such as worship, contraception and abortion), piety and theological reflection, ethics, liturgy and theological as well as cutural anthropology. *** Bei dieser Studie handelt es sich um den Versuch einer zusammenfassenden Darstellung der christlich-antiken Auseinandersetzung mit der Würde des menschlichen Lebens Diese wird nicht nur gegenwärtig etwa in der Bioethik wieder kontrovers diskutiert, sondern ist auch in der Antike ein Feld philosophischer und theologischer Überlegungen gewesen. Volp fragt, inwieweit sich in den Schriften der antiken christlichen Denker die Vorstellung einer mit einer besonderen Würde ausgestatteten gemein-menschlichen Natur findet, die Menschen von Tieren und von belebter und unbelebter Materie unterscheidet, und wie diese Natur gefaßt und begründet wird. Ausgehend von der These, daß diese Überlegungen nicht nur Auswirkungen auf die ethische und religiöse Praxis der Alten Kirche hatten, sondern umgekehrt auch entscheidend von ihr geprägt wurden, konzentriert sich die Arbeit nicht nur auf die theoretischen Äußerungen der Kirchenväter, sondern bezieht ethische Konkretionen (Schwangerschaftsabbruch, Umgang mit Menschen mit Behinderungen, Krieg) und den christlichen Kult mit in die Untersuchung ein. Zum Vorschein kommt ein überraschend komplexes Bild einer alles andere als selbstverständlichen geistesgeschichtlichen Entwicklung, deren Folgen bis in die heutige Zeit nachwirken.

Theological anthropology --- Dignity --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Religious aspects --- 233 --- De mens. Theologische antropologie --- Human dignity --- Values --- Man (Theology) --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Theological anthropology - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca 30-600. --- Dignity - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600.

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In The Blood of Martyrs Joyce E. Salisbury chronicles the many spectacles of violent martyrdom that took place during the first three centuries of the Christian era, describing the role of martyrdom in the development of the early Church, as well as its continuing influence on many of today's ideas.Salisbury shows through the engaging stories of the martyrs introduced in each chapter, how their legacy continues to shape contemporary ideas. Discussing modern martyrdom the book elicits deep lessons for the present from the ancient past and outlining the possibility of a religi

Christian church history --- Christian special devotions --- Christian dogmatics --- History of civilization --- anno 500-599 --- anno 1-499 --- Christelijke martelaren --- Christian martyrs --- Martelaren [Christelijke ] --- Martyrs [Christian ] --- Martyrs chrétiens --- Martyrdom --- -Christian martyrs --- Persecution --- -235.3*14 --- Christians --- Religious persecution --- Atrocities --- Martyrs --- Death --- Suffering --- Christianity --- -History of doctrines --- -History --- -Hagiografie: martyrium --- Persecutions --- Religious aspects --- Rome --- Politics and government --- -Christian martyrs. --- History of doctrines --- History --- Christian martyrs. --- -Martyrdom --- 235.3*14 Hagiografie: martyrium --- Hagiografie: martyrium --- 235.3*14 --- Church history --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

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Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul-in his dramatic conversion to Christianity-to such a radical critique of Jewish culture?Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and female in Christ," demonstrates the genius of Christianity: its concern for all people. The genius of Judaism is its validation of genealogy and cultural, ethnic difference. But the evils of these two thought systems are the obverse of their geniuses: Christianity has threatened to coerce universality, while ethnic difference is one of the most troubled issues in modern history.Boyarin posits a "diaspora identity" as a way to negotiate the pitfalls inherent in either position. Jewishness disrupts categories of identity because it is not national, genealogical, or even religious, but all of these, in dialectical tension with one another. It is analogous with gender: gender identity makes us different in some ways but not in others.An exploration of these tensions in the Pauline corpus, argues Boyarin, will lead us to a richer appreciation of our own cultural quandaries as male and female, gay and straight, Jew and Palestinian-and as human beings.

Jewish interpretations. --- Epistles of Paul --- Paul, Epistles of --- Paul Sŏsin --- Pauline epistles --- Risālat al-Qiddīs Būlus al-rasūl al-thāniyah ilá Tīmūthīʼūs --- Judaism (Christian theology) --- 227.08 --- 227.08 Paulinische theologie --- Paulinische theologie --- History of doctrines --- Paul, --- Pavel, --- Pavol, --- Paulus von Tarsus, --- Paulos, --- Pōghos, --- Paweł, --- Paweł z Tarsu, --- Būlus, --- Pablo, --- Paulo de Tarso, --- Paolo di Tarso, --- Pál, --- Apostolos Paulos --- Saul, --- القديس بولس الرسول --- بولس، --- 사도바울 --- Conversion. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Christianity --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity and other religions --- Judaism --- Paul --- Jewish interpretations --- Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Paulus, --- Pawełm --- Paulo, --- Paolo, --- Judaism (Christian theology) - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint - Jewish interpretations. --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint

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The book illuminates “the other side” of early Christianity by examining thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers as legitimate forms of Christianity, but which are now largely forgotten, or are known only from the characteristics attributed to them in the writings of their main adversaries. The collection deals with the following teachers and movements: Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus’ school, Marcion, Tatian, Bardaisan, Montanists, Cerinthus, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Jewish-Christianity of the Pseudo-Clementines , and Elchasites. Where appropriate, the authors have included an overview of the life and significant publications of the “heretics,” along with a description of their theologies and movements. Therefore, this volume can serve as a handbook of the second-century “heretics” and their “heresies.” Since all the chapters have been written by specialists who wrestle daily with their research themes, the contributions also offer new perspectives and insights stimulating further discussion on this fascinating—but often neglected—side of early Christianity.

Heresies, Christian. --- Heretics, Christian --- Church history --- Christian heresies. --- Christian heretics --- Christian heresies --- Heresies [Christian ] --- Heresies and heretics --- Hérésies chrétiennes --- Ketterijen [Christelijke ] --- 273 "00/04" --- Schisma's. Ketterijen--?"00/04" --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Heretics --- Heresies, Christian --- Heresy --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Christian sects --- Christian heretics. --- Heterodoxe stromingen. --- Hérésies chrétiennes. --- Hérétiques chrétiens --- Ketters. --- RELIGION --- Vroege kerk. --- Église --- Primitive and early church. --- History. --- Histoire --- 30-600. --- Heretics [Christian] --- Biography --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- 30 - 600 --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period --- Heretics, Christian - Biography. --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.