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HISTORY - CHRISTIAN
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-- Early 30-800
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A Noble Task: Entry into the Clergy in the First Five Centuries, by Lewis J. Patsavos; Translated by Norman Russell; Foreword by Kallistos Ware
This book presents a rich collection of key texts from the Fathers and early councils setting out what was expected in moral and educational terms from aspirants to the clergy in the early Christian centuries. 364pp Paper
Price: $25.00
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AD 33: The Year That Changed the World, by Colin Duriez
Supplemented by maps, charts and timelines, this richly detailed book reveals what the world that saw the inauguration of Christianity was like. 256pp Hardcover
Price: $22.00
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Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, by Elaine Pagels
A study of how, after the fourth century and the conversion of Constantine, Christian teaching underwent a revolutionary change form a doctrine that celebrated human freedom to one that emphasized the universal bondage of original sin. 224pp Paper
Price: $14.00
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Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital, BY Neil B. McLynn
In this new and illuminating interpretation of Ambrose, bishop of Milan from 374 to 397, Neil McLynn thoroughly sifts the evidence surrounding this very difficult personality. 406pp Cloth
Price: $70.00
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And You Welcomed Me: A Sourcebook on Hospitality in Early Christianity, Edited by Amy G. Oden
This volume provides an anthology of about 40 primary source documents that describe the work of religious communities that took care of pilgrims and the sick in the late antique and early medieval world. 316pp Paper
Price: $29.00
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Apocalyptic Thought in Early Christianity, by Robert Daly
This volume explores how early Christian understandings of apocalyptic writings and teachings are reflected in the theology, social practices, and institutions of the early church. 304pp Paper
Price: $33.00
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Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian (2nd Edition), by Philip Rousseau
In his Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian, Philip Rousseau presents a survey of asceticism in the western church until about 400, including a of Jerome, and then, into the fifth century, a reading of Sulpicius and Cassian. 304pp Paper
Price: $33.00
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Augustine to Constantine: The Rise and Triumph of Christianity in the Roman World, by Robert M. Grant; Foreword by Margaret M. Mitchell
Beginning with the death of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, in A.D. 14, and ending with the death of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, in A.D. 337, this study of early Christianity brings to life the developments through which the faith of a Jewish sect became the religion of the Roman emperor. 392pp Paper
Price: $30.00
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