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  • In Defence of Christianity

    Early Christian Apologists

    Edited by Jakob Engberg, Anders-Christian Jacobsen, Jörg Ulrich ...
    Series Book 15 - Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity
    In Defence of Christianity examines the early Christian apologists in their context in thirteen articles divided in four parts. Part I provides an introduction to apology and apologetics in antiquity, an overview of the early Christian apologists, and an outline of their argumentation. The nine articles of Part II each cover one of the early apologists: Aristides, Justin, Tatian, Athenagoras, ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity

    Edited by Julia Hillner, Jörg Ulrich, Jakob Engberg ...
    Series Book 17 - Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity
    This volume results from the international research project ‘The Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity (325‒c.600)’. The project is a collaboration between the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, the Seminar für Kirchengeschichte at the University of Halle, and the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University. Ten chapters of the volume are revised ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

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  • Pagans and Christians

    In the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine

    by Robin Lane Fox ...
    How did Christianity compare and compete with the cults of the pagan gods in the Roman Empire? This scholarly work from award-winning historian, Robin Lane Fox, places Christians and pagans side by side in the context of civil life and contrasts their religious experiences, visions, cults and oracles. Leading up to the time of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, the book aims to enlarge and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Patient Ferment of the Early Church

    The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire

    by Alan Kreider ...
    How and why did the early church grow in the first four hundred years despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional persecution? In this unique historical study, veteran scholar Alan Kreider delivers the fruit of a lifetime of study as he tells the amazing story of the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Challenging traditional understandings, Kreider contends the church grew because ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics

    The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics

    by Bart D. Ehrman ...
    "Arguably the most distinctive feature of the early Christian literature," writes Bart Ehrman, "is the degree to which it was forged." The Homilies and Recognitions of Clement; Paul's letters to and from Seneca; Gospels by Peter, Thomas, and Philip; Jesus' correspondence with Abgar, letters by Peter and Paul in the New Testament--all forgeries. To cite just a few examples. Forgery and ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God

    by Robert Louis Wilken ...
    Written by a preeminent religious historian, this book provides an introduction to early Christian thought. Focusing on major figures such as St. Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well known thinkers, Robert Wilken chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition.In chapters on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Christians and Images: Early Christian Attitudes toward Images

    by Steven Bigham ...
    This book aims at combating the Hostility Theory which claims that the Christians in the pagan Roman Empire had no images and rejected them as idolatrous. Did the early Christians, during the first three centuries, 33–313, have images in their churches or places of worship and homes? If they did not, was that because they thought that all images were idols or close to being idols? Did they think ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity

    by Luke Timothy Johnson ...
    The question of Christianity’s relation to the other religions of the world is more pertinent and difficult today than ever before. While Christianity’s historical failure to appreciate or actively engage Judaism is notorious, Christianity’s even more shoddy record with respect to “pagan” religions is less understood. Christians have inherited a virtually unanimous theological tradition that ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Beginning to Read the Fathers: Revised Edition

    by Boniface Ramsey ...
    A survey of the principal themes of patristic writing, touching on the major Greek and Latin Fathers of the Church, now revised. ... Read more

    $24.74 CAD

  • Stoicism in Early Christianity

    Edited by Tuomas Rasimus, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Ismo Dunderberg ...
    Highlighting the place of Stoic teaching in early Christian thought, an international roster of scholars challenges the prevailing view that Platonism was the most important philosophical influence on early Christianity. They suggest that early Christians were more often influenced by Stoicism than by Platonism, an insight that sheds new light on the relationship between philosophy and religion at ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Original Bishops

    Office and Order in the First Christian Communities

    by Alistair Stewart ...
    A Jesus Creed 2015 Book of the YearThis work provides a new starting point for studying the origins of church offices. Alistair Stewart, a leading authority on early Christianity and a meticulous scholar, provides essential groundwork for historical and theological discussions. Stewart refutes a long-held consensus that church offices emerged from collective leadership at the end of the first ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Between Pagan and Christian

    by Christopher Prestige Jones ...
    For the early Christians, “pagan” referred to a multitude of unbelievers: Greek and Roman devotees of the Olympian gods, and “barbarians” such as Arabs and Germans with their own array of deities. But while these groups were clearly outsiders or idolaters, who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD