Antiqua mater : a study of Christian origins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, E. (Edwin), 1842-1901.

Contributor:

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Church history.

Physical Description:

xx, 308 p. ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Trübner, 1887.

Contents:

The external history. Pagan sources; the reign of Trajan; Pliny and Tacitus on the Christiani and Christus; Suetonius; The 'author of the Christian name'

References to the Jews in the Roman literature of the second century

Christian sources; Justin martyr

Christian sources; the 'hæretics' (or sectarians) during the first half of the second century

The internal history. The Hagioi, apostles, and prophets; The Christianos and the Christemporos

The ecclesia; 'The vine'

Rites of the Hagioi

The new creation, the new people, and the new law

The seal of the new community

Moral teaching among the Hagioi; The 'two ways'

The evangelion and the evangelists

The ideal among Jews and gentiles

The Gnostic theology

The critics and the apologetes of Christianity

Celsus and Origen

Addenda. Index.

Notes:

Contains index.

Includes index and bibliographical footnotes.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift: C.H. Hutchinson, 1889.

Athenaeum copy: Stamped on title page: "Received May 25 1889."

OCLC:

2313965