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100			_aWilken, Robert Louis
100			_d1936 -
100			_eAuthor
245			_aThe Spirit of Early Christian Thought
245			_bSeeking the Face of God
245			_cRobert Louis Wilken
260			_aU.S.A.
260			_bYale University Press
260			_c2003
300			_a368tr.
300			_bhardcover, illustrations
300			_c22 cm
520			_aIn this eloquent introduction to early Christian thought, eminent religious historian Robert Louis Wilken examines the tradition that such figures as St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and others set in place. These early thinkers constructed a new intellectual and spiritual world, Wilken shows, and they can still be heard as living voices in the modern world. In chapters on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, Wilken shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.
650			_aChurch history Primitive and early church, ca 30-600
650			_aTheology -- Early church
856	4		_uhttps://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/13990/the-spirit-of-early-christian-thought.jpg _yCover Image
911			_aTrương Trung Tín
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