A history of the first Christians / Alexander J.M. Wedderburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wedderburn, A. J. M.

Series:

Understanding the Bible and its world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Church history--Primitive and early church.

Physical Description:

xii, 296 p ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T&T Clark International, 2004.

Summary:

This work provides a survey of the history of the earliest Christian church in the period up to the fall of Jerusalem. It concentrates on: the figure of Paul; judicious and critical use of information in the Book of Acts; Judaizing versions of Christianity; and the Johannine tradition.

Contents:

1.1. When to Stop? 1

1.2. A Fragmentary Story 4

1.3.1. The Pauline Letters 8

1.3.2. The Book of Acts 10

2. The First Beginnings 16

2.1. Appearances of the Risen Jesus 17

2.2. Regrouping in Jerusalem? 21

2.3. Pentecost 25

2.4. A Jewish Group? 28

3. Stephen and His Group 41

3.1. 'Hebrews' and 'Hellenists' 42

3.2. The Problem and Its Solution 44

3.3. Stephen 47

3.4. The Outbreak of Persecution 56

4. The Spread of Christianity 59

4.1. Samaria 62

4.2. Antioch 67

4.3. Peter and Cornelius 71

4.4. Peter 75

5. Paul

the Hidden Years 79

5.1. The Pre-Christian Paul 79

5.2. The Conversion of Paul 84

5.3. Before the Conference in Jerusalem 86

6. Agreement and Strife 89

6.1. Pauline Chronology 89

6.1.1. Acts and Galatians 91

6.1.2. An Absolute Chronology? 99

6.2. The Jerusalem Conference 104

6.3. The Quarrel at Antioch 114

7. Paul the Missionary 121

7.1. The Course of Paul's Missionary Work 121

7.2. The Nature of the Pauline Communities 128

7.3. Problems of the Pauline Communities 138

7.4. The Collection 147

8. Judaizing Christianity 151

8.1. James 153

8.2. Writings of a Judaizing Christianity 156

8.3. The Jerusalem Church 162

9. Pauline Christianity after Paul 167

9.1. A Pauline School or Pauline Schools? 169

9.2. 'Early Catholicism'? 175

10. Johannine Christianity 178

11. The Church in the Roman Empire 186

1. Primary Sources 252

2. Reference Works 255

3. General Works on the History of Earliest Christianity 255

4. Other Secondary Literature 256

1. Old Testament 277

2. Other Jewish Sources 277

3. New Testament 278

4. Other Early Christian Literature and Gnostic Sources 284

5. Other Graeco-Roman Literature and Sources 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-275) and indexes.

ISBN:

056708423X

0567084132

OCLC:

54518823