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The Church in Ancient Society provides a full and enjoyable narrative history of the first six centuries of the Christian Church. Ancient Greek and Roman society had many gods and an addiction to astrology and divination. This introduction to the period traces the process by which Christianity changed this and so provided a foundation for the modern world: the teaching of Jesus created a lasting community, which grew to command the allegiance of the Roman emperor.
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This third collection of articles by Henry Chadwick brings together
a series of studies on Augustine, written in light of the new texts
now available, and on other individual Christian authors of
antiquity, in other words of the age when Christianity was
acquiring its now familiar shape. A number of papers published here
appear in print for the first time, or make accessible to English
readers studies which first saw the light in German. These include
a substantial discussion of the idea of conscience, important in
the highly ethical context of early Christianity, and a study of
ancient anthologies, and are complemented by other essays on
general themes in the history of the early Church.
The apostolic tradition of St Hippolytus provides a single source
of evidence on the inner life and religious polity of the early
Christian Church. This book brings out the value of this treatise
for the study of early Christian institutions, and the spirit of
the primitive Church.
This third collection of articles by Henry Chadwick brings together
a series of studies on Augustine, written in light of the new texts
now available, and on other individual Christian authors of
antiquity, in other words of the age when Christianity was
acquiring its now familiar shape. A number of papers published here
appear in print for the first time, or make accessible to English
readers studies, which first saw the light in German. These include
a substantial discussion of the idea of conscience, important in
the highly ethical context of early Christianity, and a study of
ancient anthologies, which are complemented by other essays on
general themes in the history of the early Church.
The greatest Christian split of all has been that between east and west, between Roman Catholic and eastern Orthodox, which is still apparent today. Henry Chadwick provides a compelling and balanced account of the emergence of divisions between Rome and Constantinople. Starting with the roots of the divergence in Apostolic times, he takes the story right up to the Council of Florence in the fifteenth century.
Sextus's Sentences are a collection of ethical aphorisms which for
centuries were read in Latin, Greek, Syriac and Armenian, by
Christians from Britain to Mesopotamia. Who 'Sextus' was, and
whether he was a Christian, is not certain; Dr Chadwick discusses
the evidence, including some he has discovered himself. But the
Sentences, probably written in the second century, were widely read
in Jerome's time, and were still treated as authoritative in the
Middle Ages. They are an important strand in the history of the
development of Christian ethics, and are yet another example of
that dialogue between the Greek and the Jewish which so profoundly
affected the development of the young religion. Dr Chadwick first
provides a critical edition of the Greek and Latin texts. There
follow studies of the moral teaching of Sextus, the evidence of
Origen, the testimony of Rufinus and Jerome, and the internal
evidence provided by the texts.
Few works of the early Church are as interesting to the modern
reader or as important to the historian as Origen's reply to the
attack on Christianity made by the pagan Celsus. The Contra Celsum
is the culmination of the great apologetic movement of the second
and third centuries AD, and is for the Greek Church what St
Augustine's City of God is for Western Christendom. It is also one
of the chief monuments of the coming together of ancient Greek
culture and the new faith of the expanding Christian society. Thus
Origen's work is of interest not only to the historian and
theologian, but also to the hellenist. Professor Chadwick's English
translation is preceded by a substantial introduction which
includes discussion on Celsus' date, identity and theological
outlook, as well as an account of Origen's philosophical background
and method. The notes elucidate the many obscure allusions of a
difficult text.
This first volume of the penguin history of the church looks at the
beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries AD
and at the explosive force of its expansion throughout the Roman
world. Drawing on recent historical research, Professor Henry
Chadwock shows how Christianity had its roots in a synthesis of
contemporary ideas and beliefs, and analyses the causes of its
persecution under Diocletian, the fanaticism of its martyrs and its
bitter internal controversies. The conversion of Constantine and
the edict of Theodosius meant that the church had to reconcile its
spiritual duties with a new, worldly role as an established church
for good government throughout the empire, and Professor Chadwick
completes his history by demonstrating how this conflict of
responsiblilties led to the emergence of the papacy and the
monastic movement, the twin pillars of Christianity in the Middle
Ages.
Augustine (354-430) had a profound impact on the development of the
Christian Church, sparking controversy and influencing the ideas of
theologians for over fifteen centuries. His words are still
frequently quoted in devotions today and his key themes retain a
striking contemporary relevance--what is the place of the Church in
the world? What is the relation between nature and grace? In
Augustine of Hippo, the late Henry Chadwick--a renowned authority
on Augustine--describes with clarity and warmth the intellectual
development of this key Father of the Church. In his
characteristically rigorous yet sympathetic style, Chadwick traces
Augustine's intellectual journey from schoolboy and student to
Bishop and champion of Christendom in a period of intense political
upheaval, providing valuable insight into the progression of
Augustine's ideas. With a foreword reflecting on Chadwick's
distinctive approach to Augustine by Peter Brown, and a further
reading list on Augustine compiled by Gillian Clark, this volume is
both an essential assessment of Augustine and a final tribute to
one of the great church historians of the twentieth century.
The Consolations of Philosophy by Boethius, whose English
translators include King Alfred, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Queen
Elizabeth I, ranks among the most remarkable books to be written by
a prisoner awaiting the execution of a tyrannical death sentence.
Its interpretation is bound up with his other writings on
mathematics and music, on Aristotelian and propositional logic, and
on central themes of Christian dogma. Chadwick begins by tracing
the career of Boethius, a Roman rising to high office under the
Gothic King Theoderic the Great, and suggests that his death may be
seen as a cruel by-product of Byzantine ambitions to restore Roman
imperial rule after its elimination in the West in AD 476.
Subsequent chapters examine in detail his educational programme in
the liberal arts designed to avert a threatened collapse of culture
and his ambition to translate into Latin everything he could find
on Plato and Aristotle. Boethius has been called `last of the
Romans, first of the scholastics'. This book is the first major
study in English of a writer who was of critical importance in the
history of thought.
This volume in the Library of Christian Classics series offers
fresh translations of selected works of Clement and Origen of
Alexandria.
Long recognized for the quality of its translations,
introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of
Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern
English translations of some of the most significant Christian
theological texts in history. Through these works--each written
prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are
able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and
the church through the centuries.
Augustine (354-430) had a profound impact on the development of the
Christian Church, sparking controversy and influencing the ideas of
theologians for over fifteen centuries. His words are still
frequently quoted in devotions today and his key themes retain a
striking contemporary relevance--what is the place of the Church in
the world? What is the relation between nature and grace? In
Augustine of Hippo, the late Henry Chadwick--a renowned authority
on Augustine--describes with clarity and warmth the intellectual
development of this key Father of the Church. In his
characteristically rigorous yet sympathetic style, Chadwick traces
Augustine's intellectual journey from schoolboy and student to
Bishop and champion of Christendom in a period of intense political
upheaval, providing valuable insight into the progression of
Augustine's ideas. With a foreword reflecting on Chadwick's
distinctive approach to Augustine by Peter Brown, and a further
reading list on Augustine compiled by Gillian Clark, this volume is
both an essential assessment of Augustine and a final tribute to
one of the great church historians of the twentieth century.
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