| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 538 pages) : map |
| Series |
Cambridge histories online |
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Cambridge histories online
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| Contents |
Introduction: the literary culture of the earliest Christianity / Frances Young -- The apostolic and sub-apostolic writings: the new testament and the apostolic fathers / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Gnostic literature / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Apocryphal writings and acts of the martyrs / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- The apologists / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Irenaeus of Lyon / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Social and historical setting / John Behr -- Articulating identity / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Christian teaching / Frances Young -- Conclusion: towards a hermeneutic of second-century texts / Frances Young -- The Alexandrians / Ronald E. Heine -- The beginnings of Latin Christian literature / Ronald E. Heine -- Hippolytus, Ps.-Hippolytus and the early canons / Ronald E. Heine -- Cyprian and Novatian / Ronald E. Heine -- The earliest Syriac literature / Sebastian P. Brock -- Concluding review: the literary culture of the third century / Frances Young -- Social and historical setting: Christianity as culture critique / Karen Jo Torjesen -- Articulating identity / Ronald E. Heine -- Christian teaching / John David Dawson -- The significance of third-century Christian literature / Frances Young -- Classical genres in Christian guise; Christian genres in classical guise / Frances Young -- Arnobius and Lactantius / Oliver Nicholson -- Eusebius and the birth of church history / Andrew Louth -- The fourth-century Alexandrians: Athanasius and Didymus / Andrew Louth -- Palestine: Cyril of Jerusalem and Epiphanius / Andrew Louth -- The Cappadocians / Andrew Louth -- Fourth-century Latin writers: Hilary, Victorinus, Ambrosiaster, Ambrose / David G. Hunter -- Jerome and Rufinus / Mark Vessey -- Augustine / Henry Chadwick -- John Chrysostom and the Antiochene school to Theodoret of Cyrrhus / Andrew Louth -- Cyril of Alexandria / Andrew Louth -- Hagiography / Andrew Louth -- Ephrem and the Syriac tradition / Sebastian P. Brock -- The literature of the monastic movement / Andrew Louth -- Women and words: texts by and about women / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- Conciliar records and canons / Andrew Louth -- Social and historical setting / R.A. Markus -- Articulating identity / Lewis Ayres -- Christian teaching / Frances Young -- Retrospect: interpretation and appropriation / Frances Young |
| Summary |
The writings of the Church Fathers form a distinct body of literature that shaped the early church and built upon the doctrinal foundations of Christianity established within the New Testament. Christian literature in the period c. 100-c. 400 constitutes one of the most influential textual oeuvres of any religion. Written mainly in Greek, Latin and Syriac, Patristic literature emanated from all parts of the early Christian world and helped to extend its boundaries. The History offers a systematic account of that literature and its setting. The work of individual writers in shaping the various genres of Christian literature is considered, alongside three general essays, covering distinct periods in the development of Christian literature, which survey the social, cultural and doctrinal context within which Christian literature arose and was used by Christians |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-530) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism
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11.51 early Christianity.
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18.43 ancient Greek literature.
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18.46 ancient Latin literature.
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Christian literature, Early.
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Frühchristentum
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Literatur
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Christliche Literatur
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Vroegchristelijke literatuur.
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Klassieke talen.
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Syrisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Textbooks (form)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Young, Frances M. (Frances Margaret)
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Ayres, Lewis
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Louth, Andrew
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| ISBN |
9781139053846 |
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1139053841 |
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9780511467622 |
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0511467621 |
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9781139053846 |
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0521460832 |
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9780521460835 |
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0521697506 |
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9780521697507 |
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