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A political history of early Christianity / Allen Brent.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brent, Allen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Religion and politics--History--To 1500.
- Religion and politics.
- Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
- Rome.
- Rome--Politics and government--30 B.C.-68 A.D.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : T & T Clark, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In A Political History of Early Christianity Allen Brent examines early Christianity and its triumph in Roman Empire. Starting with the description of the apocalyptic movement of the earliest form of Roman [Markan] Christianity, Brent moves on to illustrate various aspects that have made Christianity so powerful. Explaining numerous ideas involved in the rising of the Christianity, such as metaphysical reality, church organisation, nascent Trinitarianism, Allen Brent also emphasizes the impact of emperor Constantine's position in the new Christian cosmic and political order: a Trinity of disti
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1 THE JESUS OF HISTORY AND HIS MOVEMENT, AND THE POLITICS OF HIS DAY; CHAPTER 2 THE FIRST CONFRONTATION WITH PAGANISM UNDER NERO AND THE MARKAN COMMUNITY; CHAPTER 3 THE POLITICAL THEOLOGY OF THE AUGUSTAN REVOLUTION: COSMIC RECONSTRUCTION; CHAPTER 4 JOHN THE SEER'S APOCALYPTIC RESPONSE: AN ATTACK ON AUGUSTAN COSMIC RECONSTRUCTION; CHAPTER 5 EARLY CHRISTIAN COSMIC REORDERING: ST LUKE, CLEMENT AND IGNATIUS; CHAPTER 6 THE APOLOGISTS AND THE POLITICS OF THE TRINITY: LOGOS AND COSMOLOGY
- CHAPTER 7 CYPRIAN AGAINST DECIUS: OPPOSING ESCHATOLOGIES AND THE CREATION OF A STATE WITHIN THE STATECHAPTER 8 CONSTANTINE, THE DIVINE ORDER OF THE CHRISTIAN EMPIRE AND ITS EUROPEAN LEGACY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612868740
- 9781282868748
- 1282868748
- 9780567606051
- 0567606058
- OCLC:
- 676695820
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