The Beginnings of Christianity An Introduction to the New Testament
Howard Clark Kee
- U.S.A. T & T Clark 2005
- 502tr. paperback, illustrations 23cm
To understand the historical beginnings of Christianity requires one not only to examine the documents that the movement produced, but also to scrutinize other evidence-historical, literary, and archaeological-that can illumine the socio-cultural context in which Christianity began and how it responded to the influences that derived from that setting. This involves not only analysis of the readily accessible content of the relevant literary evidence, but also attention to the world-views and assumptions about reality that are inherent in these documents and other phenomena that have survived from this period.
0567027414, 9780567027412
Bible -- New Testament -- Introductions Church history Primitive and early church, ca 30-600