A lucid, authoritative guide to the mysteries of early Christianity, separating historical truth from legend.
Introduction Leslie HouldenChapter 1What Did Jesus Do and Teach? Leslie HouldenChapter 2Who Were the Disciples? Stephen NeedChapter 3Who Were the First Popes? Graham GouldChapter 4What Is the Apocryphal New Testament? Stuart HallChapter 5What Was Gnosticism? Stuart HallChapter 6What Was the Qumran Sect and Did Jesus Share Their Beliefs? Stephen NeedChapter 7How Did the Early Christians Worship? Graham GouldChapter 8Who Were the Heretics and What Did They Believe? Lionel WickhamChapter 9What Did Constantine Do for Christianity? Graham GouldIndex
Leslie Houlden has taught at Oxford and King's College, London and is the author of many books, chiefly on the New Testament, the use of the Bible and the best ways for us now to see the relation between Scripture and Christian faith. He is an Anglican priest and a retired professor of the University of London. Graham Gould was formerly a lecturer in theology at King's College, London. He is now a freelance lecturer and writer and co-editor of the Journal of Theological Studies. As well as the early church his theological interests include liturgy and the critical appropriation of the Bible in preaching. He lives in Leyton in east London. Stuart George Hall was born in London in 1928, and educated at University College School, New College, Oxford and Ripon Hall. He has been an Anglican priest since 1955, and has taught and published in universities, chiefly on the early Church. From 1978 to 1990 he was Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Kings College, London, and is now associated with St Andrews University. Stephen W. Need has taught New Testament Studies and Early Christianity in Chichester, Southampton and Jerusalem. He has traveled widely in the Middle East and is currently Dean of St. George's College, Jerusalem. Lionel Wickham (born 1932) has divided his working life between parish priesthood, mostly in Yorkshire, and university teaching. His last academic post was as University Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge where he taught under the heading of the History and Interpretation of Christian doctrine in the Patristic period.
Recommended for undergraduate academic libraries.
*Library Journal*
We should know the roots of our faith (those of other faiths find
it strange that we do not), and this is a book that offers help to
those newly awakening to the nourishing fascinations of the Early
Church and its witness to Christian experience.
*Church Times*
This collection of nine essays with a comprehensive introduction
sort what we know for sure from what some of us guess or wish had
happened. The contributors, all well-respected academics and
clerics, confront both ancient and recent speculation about what
Jesus did and taught, who his disciples and first popes were, and
how they came to discern heresy in the tumultuous couple of hundred
years after BC became AD. They cover the apocrypha, Gnosticism, the
battles of the sects and heresies, early Christian worship, and the
contributions of Constantine. Along the way they address both the
serious and silly notions that sprouted along the path of early
Christianity on its way to today.
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