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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of contents
Series Introduction, Volume Introduction, Black Marks on the Communities' Manuscripts, The Faith of Our Fathers: The Making of the Early Christian Past, Tertullian on Heresy, History, and the Reappropriation of Revelation, History and Faith in Augustine's De Trinitate, Radix Catholica, Origen's Two Resurrections, Origen of Alexandria: The Fate of the Soul and the Body after Death, Images of the Resurrection Body in the Theology of Late Antiquity, Predestination and Divine Foreknowledge in the Sermons of Pope Leo the Great, Theology and Language in Irenaeus of Lyon, Augustine on Language, The Shifting Tones of Pope Leo the Great's Christological Vocabulary, Frequenter Legere: The Propagation of Literacy, Education, and Divine Wisdom in Caesarius of Arles, The Language of Images: The Rise of Icons and Christian Representation, Memory, Instruction, Worship: Gregory's Influence on Early Medieval Doctrines of the Artistic Image, A Reassessment of the Early Career and Exile of Hilary of Poitiers, Polemics and Politics in Ambrose of Milan's De Fide, On the Brink: Bede, Acknowledgments
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Everett Ferguson
Summary
Part of a six-volume set that should provide an introduction to key areas of research and debate on the early history of Christianity, this book focuses on the affect early Christianity had on people's lives.
