The early church

by Chadwick, Henry

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Title Statements

Full title :The early church.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1993.
Edition:Revised edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Penguin
Place of Publication:Harmondsworth
Language:eng
Publication Date:1993.

The Physical Object

Description:314 pages ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780140231991, 0140231994
oclc:on1155227297
Dewey Decimal:270.2 CHA

1. From Jerusalem to Rome/ -- The Jewish background/ -- The earliest Church/ -- The gentile Church/ -- Encounter with the Roman Empire/ -- 2. Faith and order/ -- The bonds of unity/ -- Gnosticism/ -- The ministry and the Bible/ -- Forms of the ministry/ -- 3. Expansion and growth/ -- Causes of success/ -- The geographical extension of the Church/ -- The defence of the faith/ -- 4. Justin and Irenaeus/ -- Justin Martyr/ -- Irenaeus/ -- 5. Easter, the Monarchian controversy, and Tertullian/ -- 6. Clement of Alexandria and origen/ -- 7. Church, state and society in the third century/ -- The pagan revival and the persecution of decius/ -- Cyprian/ -- The great persecution and its consequences/ -- 8. Constantine and the council of Nicaea/ -- 9. The Arian controversy after the council of Nicaea/ -- From Nicaea (325) to the death of Constantine (337)/ -- The Church under the sons of Constantine/ -- From Julian to Theodosius I (361-81)/ -- 10. The conflict of paganism and Christianity in the fourth century/ -- 11. Church, state and society from Julian to Theodosius/ -- 12. The Ascetic movement/ -- 13. The controversy about origen and the tragedy of John Chrysostom/ -- 14. The problem of t…