The definitive text in early church history, Frend's The Rise of Christianity offers a vast, panoramic sweep of Christianity's first six centuries, from the dust of Palestine to the court of Justinian and the parting of Eastern and Western Christianity. With many maps, chronologies, and graphics, Frend's text is an engaging story but also an immensely learned and careful work of scholarship. Elegantly written. It is a marvelous reference work. It will become the standard church history of our time for scholar and novice alike.

Frend, W. H. C

1517 Media

1. paperback ed., 3. [print, Philadelphia, 1991

First paperback edition, Philadelphia, 1985

United States, United States of America

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1984

1st, 1984

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Previous ed., 1984.
Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

xvii, 1022 pages : 25 cm
The definitive text in early church history, Frend's The Rise of Christianity offers a vast, panoramic sweep of Christianity's first six centuries, from the dust of Palestine to the court of Justinian and the parting of Eastern and Western Christianity. With many maps, chronologies, and graphics, Frend's text is an engaging story but also an immensely learned and careful work of scholarship. - Publisher
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Jews and Christians. The Jewish background ; Jesus of Nazareth ; Paul and the first expansion 30-65 ; The Christian synagogue 70-135 ; Opposition cult 135-80 ; Acute Hellenization 135-93 ; The emergence of orthodoxy 135-93 -- Christianity and the Roman empire. Out of the shadows 193-235 ; Struggle and advance 235-60 ; The third century : the Western churches 190-260 ; The third century : Christian Platonism of Alexandria and its opponents 190-275 ; Church and people in the third century ; The age of Diocletian 270-405 ; The Constantinian revolution 305-30 -- From Constantine to Chalcedon. Toward Byzantium 330-61 ; From pagan to Christian society 330-60 ; Hero of a lost cause : the Emperor Julian 360-63 ; New perspectives in West and East 363-99 ; The North African dimension 370-430 ; Christianity and barbarism : the West 380-450 ; The road to Chalcedon 398-451 -- The parting of the ways. The Catholic recovery in the West 452-536 ; Justinian and the Byzantine achievement 527-65 ; "And East is East" 565-604

Traces the early history of the Christian church from Jewish Palestine prior to Christ's birth to the sixth century monastic movement, and explains how Christianity survived under a variety of cultures

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