The Path of Christianity : The First Thousand Years.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGuckin, John Anthony.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1232 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

path of Christianity

Place of Publication:

Chicago : InterVarsity Press, 2017.

Summary:

John McGuckin, a world-renowned expert on ancient Christianity, has synthesized a lifetime of work to produce the most comprehensive and accessible history of the first millennium of the Christian church. This readable account explores the history in chronological order and then examines the same period thematically, looking at issues like women, war, and the Bible.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Dedication

Title Page

Contents

Prelude

Abbreviations

Part One: The Church's Pilgrim Path

1 The Fertile Second Century

The End of the Apostles and the Beginnings of Apostolicity

A Proliferation of Christian Schools and Teachers

Early Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies

A Short Reader

Further Reading

2 Blood in the Arena: The Age of Persecutions and Resistance: Second to Third Centuries

Christians in the Roman Imperial Sightline

Roman ideas on Law and Religion

Hellenistic Attitudes to Christianity: The Case of Celsus

Rival Non-Christian Orders

Early Christian Relations with the Jews

The Christian Apologetical Tradition

3 Coming of Age: Christianity in the Third Century

The Establishment of Christian Polity

Rome and North Africa: Aftermaths of Persecution: Cyprian and Stephen

The Christian Schools at Alexandria and Caesarea

Christianity and the Philosophers

4 The Gospel on the Throne: Christians in the Fourth-Century East

Diocletian and the Constantinian Revolution

The Arian Crisis and Its Resolution

The Cappadocian Theological Synthesis

The Councils of Constantinople 381 and 382

Christianity's Fourth-Century Ascendancy and Its Protestors

5 Reconciling the World: Christian Ascetical and Penitential Imperatives

Repentance and Reconciliation in Early Christian Theory and Action

The Christian Monastic Movements

6 Remaking Society: The Church in the West in the Fourth to Sixth Centuries

The Church in a Troubled Imperium

The Western Nicene Leaders

The Donatist Controversy

Augustine and His Social Vision

Friends and Opponents of Augustine in the West.

The Early Medieval Papacy and the Acacian Schism

Christianity in the Barbarian Kingdoms

7 A Church of the Nations: Ancient Global Christianity

The Latin and Greek Foci of Classical Church History

Syria

China

Arabia

India

Armenia

Georgia

Nubia

Ethiopia

Slavia Orthodoxa

8 The Rise of the Ecumenical Conciliar System in the Fifth to Sixth Centuries

The Christian Patriarchates

John Chrysostom at Constantinople

The Origenistic Crisis

The Christological Controversy of the Fifth Century

The Council of Chalcedon 451 and Its Aftermath

The Council of Constantinople II 553

Byzantine Platonism at Athens and Palestine

9 The Emergence of Christian Byzantium in the Sixth to Ninth Centuries

Justinian the Great

The Emergence of the Monophysite Church

Heraclius and the Exaltation of the Cross

Monoenergism and Monothelitism

The Council of Constantinople III 680-681

Islam and Its Impact on Eastern Christianity

The Byzantine Iconoclastic Crisis

Photius the Great (c. 810-897)

The Byzantine Slavic Missions

10 The Flourishing of Medieval Rome in the Seventh to Tenth Centuries

Benedict and Benedictinism

Gregory the Great and His Successors

The Carolingians and the Holy Roman Empire

The Medieval Papacy

11 The Formation of Christian Liturgy

Earliest Origins of Liturgy

The Classical Patristic-Era Formulations of Liturgies

The Liturgical Cycle of Feasts

Latin Styles of Liturgy

The Eastern Rites

12 The Great Parting of the Ways: Greek East and Latin West in the Tenth to Eleventh Centuries.

Byzantine Monastic Renewal: Symeon the New Theologian and Hesychasm

Byzantine Intellectual Life

Apologia and Conflict: Michael Cerularius and the Great Schism

The Rise of the University Schools in the West

Part Two: A Winding Road: Select Themes and Ideas

13 The Bible and Its Interpretation in the Early Church

Old and New Biblical Interpretation

Relativism and the Ecclesial Mind

The Principle of Consonance

The Principle of Authority

The Principle of Utility

14 The Church and War

Conflict as Blessing or Bane?

Is Christianity a Peaceful Religion?

Struggling with Conflicting Sources on Religious Violence

Constantine and the "Christ-Loving Armed Forces"

Major Christian Theorists

15 The Development of Christian Hymnography

Origins of the Greek Christian Hymns

Religious Hymns Among the Pre-Christian Greeks

Pre-Nicene Christian Hymnody

Hymns of the Heterodox-Orthodox Struggles

Hymnography After the Arian Crisis

16 Ways of Prayer in the Early Church

Gathering for Prayer

The Heart as Sanctuary in the Old Testament

The New Testament Doctrine of the Heart

Prayer in the Early Christian Monastic Movement

Syriac Christian Tradition on the Prayer of the Heart

17 Women in Ancient Christianity

Greek Silence

Women in the First Centuries of the Church

Women in Ancient Christian Epigraphy

Women in the Age of Persecutions

Christian Women in the Patristic and Byzantine Era

Women in the Later Byzantine Hagiographies

18 Healing and Philanthropy in Early Christianity

Healing in Ancient Hellenism

Healing in Early Christian Perspectives.

Philanthropia in Classical Greek Thought

Philanthropy in the Byzantine Divine Liturgy

The Hospital as Symbol of the Church

19 The Exercise of Authority in the Church: Orders and Offices

New Testament Polity

Authority in Hellenistic and Christian Usage

Ordination and Offices in Early Christianity

20 Christians and Magic

Antique Fears of Black Magic

Magical Amulets

Exorcists and Magi

21 The Church and Wealth

Classical Greek Inheritances

Christian Attitudes to Wealth

22 Church and Slavery in an Age of Oppression

Slavery in Ancient Social Structures

Scriptural Approaches to Slavery

23 Attitudes to Sexuality in the Early Church

Philosophical Renewals of Interest

Greek Love

Some Nonphilosophical Greek Attitudes to Sexuality

Greek Medical Notes on Sexuality and Gender

Hellenistic Jewish Approaches to Sexuality

The New Testament Evidence on Sexual Morality

24 A Brief Account of Ancient Christian Art

Early Christian Egypt and the Origins of the Icon

Earliest Christian Art Theory

Symbols and Practices in Early Christian Art

Iconoclastic Opposition to Sacred Art

Conflicted Attitudes to Christian Art

Epilogue

Appendix 1: The Seven Ecumenical Councils: A Brief Guide

Appendix 2: List of the Roman Popes to 1054 and the Patriarchs of Constantinople to 1453

Appendix 3: List of the Roman Emperors to 1453

Index of Persons and Places

Index of Subjects

Index of Biblical Citations

Praise for Path of Christianity

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OCLC:

1302009935