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The Early Church (Hardcover)
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The Early Church (Hardcover)
Series: I.B Tauris History of the Christian Church
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How did the early Christians manage to establish a religion and
institution which, despite persecution, flourished and grew? How
did their initial experience of being a despised minority in the
Roman Empire shape their sense of privileged identity and
uniqueness? And how was it that - at least at the outset - the
first believers were able to exist alongside the same shared
traditions, rituals and beliefs of the Jews, despite the Jewish
rejection of Jesus as Messiah?The Christian community was born out
of paradox: its faith in a man who was also the 'anointed one' (or
Christ) of God; and its growth and development often echoed those
complex and contradictory origins. Morwenna Ludlow discusses the
fragile context as well as the emerging core beliefs of the early
Church (including divine creation, salvation, eschatology, the
humanity and divinity of Christ and the inter-relationships of the
Trinity) between 50-600 CE. She also examines the process of
Christian self-definition in response to groups on the edge of the
Church, such as Gnostics, Marcionites, Montanists and Manichaeans,
as well as in relation to Judaism. Bringing to vivid life the
remarkable history of the early Church, in all its conflict and
struggle, the author shows why such a successful faith was able to
rise out of such improbable and unpromising beginnings.
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