Common life in the early church Essays honoring Graydon F. Snyder
Hills, Julian Victor
Common life in the early church Essays honoring Graydon F. Snyder Graydon F. Snyder - U.S.A Trinity 1998 - 449tr. Hardcover 23cm
This book offers a breadth of focus on community or `common life` in various Christian eras, that is, how that life is pictured both in texts and in early Christian art. Readers will find opportunity here to become current regarding what has been said and what is being said about how religious communities have defined themselves and how they have been seen by outsiders. In addition, readers will learn more about the origins of monasticism (a claim for a very early date is made), about Jewish and Christian relations in the early centuries, about house churches, and much more.
1563382547
Christian communities -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
270.1 / J94-H65
Common life in the early church Essays honoring Graydon F. Snyder Graydon F. Snyder - U.S.A Trinity 1998 - 449tr. Hardcover 23cm
This book offers a breadth of focus on community or `common life` in various Christian eras, that is, how that life is pictured both in texts and in early Christian art. Readers will find opportunity here to become current regarding what has been said and what is being said about how religious communities have defined themselves and how they have been seen by outsiders. In addition, readers will learn more about the origins of monasticism (a claim for a very early date is made), about Jewish and Christian relations in the early centuries, about house churches, and much more.
1563382547
Christian communities -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
270.1 / J94-H65