The Early Church: From the Beginnings to 461 / Edition 1

by W. H. C. Frend

Overview

Frend's masterful survey, here presented with a new Preface and updated bibliographies, traces the historical and theological development of the Christian church from apostolic times through the fifth century. Frend charts the tumultuous and momentous process by which an obscure Palestinian Jewish sect became the official religion of the Roman Empire and achieved, despite conflict, schism, and heresy, a firm organizational, liturgical and doctrinal identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800616151
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	01/01/1982
Edition description:	1st Fortress Press ed
Pages:	276
Sales rank:	683,283
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

W. H. C. Frend, perhaps the most respected living historian of early Christianity, was Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Table of Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART ONE:

Rome and the Mediterranean World

Rome and First-Century Judaism

The Primitive Community 41-70

The Old Israel and the New 70-135

The Gnostics. Marcion 130-80

A Generation of Crisis 160-85

Three Cities: Rome, Carthage and Alexandria 185-234

Origen

Decius-Valerian: A Decade of Persecution 249-59

The Dawn of the New Era 260-303

The Great Persecution 303-12

East and West to Nicaea

PART TWO:

The Arian Controversy 325-60

Julian the Apostate 361-3

The Triumph of Orthodoxy 363-82

Ambrose of Milan and Theodosius 381-95

Asceticism and the Monastic Movement in the Fouth Century

St. Augustine of Hippo 354-430

The Conflicts of Eastern Christendom 381-431

The Development of the Papacy from Damasus to Celestine 378-440

Leo and Chalcedon 440-61

Church and People from Constantine to Leo

A Bibliography of General Works on Church History

Chronological Guide: Events Relevant to Church History to 461

Notes

Index