The Early Church: An annotated Bibliography of Literature in
English is designed for students and interested laypersons,
providing them with a non-technical, informed survey of recent
scholarly debate on major topics important to an understanding of
the early church. Divided into twenty-six chapters, each with an
introductory essay of 2-3 pages, the bibliography contains
abstracts of about one thousand books and major articles dealing
with the church from the beginning of the second century roughly to
the end of the sixth. Specific chapters deal with the development
of the cannon, conversion and missions, persecution and martyrdom,
monasticism, church office, church and state, creeds, orthodoxy and
heresy, regional forms of Christianity, church and society,
Constantine and the Christian empire, Christology, women, ethice,
Gnosticism, Jewish-Christian relations, Roman society and empire,
art and architecture, theology, worship and the liturgy, and
patristic exegesis. More general chapters introduce the reader to
the basic reference works, including dictionaries, atlases,
serials, patristic texts and general histories. The entries are
extensively cross-referenced, and user-friendly codes direct the
reader to introductory works, survey articles, bibliographies, and
collections of primary texts. Each abstract indicates the number of
pages of bibliography, indexes, maps, charts, etc., and most
abstracts are followed by a list of book reviews, enabling the user
to gain access to a wider evaluation of the work in question.
Almost forty pages of indexes (general and modern authors) complete
the volume, making this a key tool for those interested in the
early church.
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