Who were the Gnostics? And how did the Gnostic movement influence the development of Christianity in antiquity? Is it true that the Church rejected Gnosticism? This book offers an illuminating discussion of recent scholarly debates over the concept of "Gnosticism" and the nature…
Jerome (c. 347-420 AD) is best remembered as the author of the Vulgate translation of the Bible. But he was also an untiring letter-writer. Among the many letters which have survived are several written to friends who have suffered recent bereavement. In the most impressive of t…
Jerome (c. 347-420 AD) is best remembered as the author of the Vulgate translation of the Bible. But he was also an untiring letter-writer. Among the many letters which have survived are several written to friends who have suffered recent bereavement. In the most impressive of t…
"Christian asceticism is deeply imbricated in both the power of self-transformation and the divine grace through which it is realized. This study seeks to explore the strategies that enabled ascetics in the Egyptian, Gazan, and Sinaitic monastic traditions of late antiquity to a…
"Christian asceticism is deeply imbricated in both the power of self-transformation and the divine grace through which it is realized. This study seeks to explore the strategies that enabled ascetics in the Egyptian, Gazan, and Sinaitic monastic traditions of late antiquity to a…
"Ignatius of Antioch was the earliest Christian writer to develop a theology of church order and ministry that bears comparison with what became normative in later Christendom as that of bishops, priests and deacons. Allen Brent has produced a new account of the origin of such a…
"The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries: Essays in Explanation attempts to show how contemporary historical scholarship, or rather a selection of its exponents, views the perennial question why a new religion, indeed a new kind of religion, succeeded in subvertin…
How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus's prophecy - "The Kingdom of God …
"Pliny, the governor of Bithynia...records an important practice among Christian groups in Bithynia: enslaved persons participated in the religious practices of the community and even held specific titles....Enslaved Leadership in Early Christianity is neither a celebration of e…
"In this study, Judith Lieu explores the formation and shaping of early Christian identity within Judaism and within the wider Graeco-Roman world in the period before 200 C.E. Bringing to bear the latest analytical methods on her subject, she pays close attention to the way that…
"In this study, Judith Lieu explores the formation and shaping of early Christian identity within Judaism and within the wider Graeco-Roman world in the period before 200 C.E. Bringing to bear the latest analytical methods on her subject, she pays close attention to the way that…
