Publication
Imprint: Shaftesbury : Element books, 1985. Responsibility: Joan O'Grady. Physical: Text : 1 volume : 157 pages ; 23 cm. Features: Includes bibliography, index.
Call number
History / O'Grad
ISBN
0906540755 / 9780906540756
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: This history of the first five centuries of Christianity, describes the events and the people, the philosophies, the cults and the idologies that impinged upon the new religion at its birth and during its growth; and it attempts to disentangle the main threads that emerge from this labyrinth of ideas, beliefs and passions. -- from jacket
Table of Contents: The beginnings and the first divergences
The climate of ideas and gnosticism
the Valentinian gnostics
Gnostic principles and gnostic literature
The two Alexandrian teachers
Marcionites and Montanists
Manichaeism
'Official' Christianity and the Donatists
The nature of god -- Arianism
The Nestorians
Pelagius
The church of Rome
Ecclesia
The strong and the weak
Possibilities
FY2005 /
Table of Contents: The beginnings and the first divergences
The climate of ideas and gnosticism
the Valentinian gnostics
Gnostic principles and gnostic literature
The two Alexandrian teachers
Marcionites and Montanists
Manichaeism
'Official' Christianity and the Donatists
The nature of god -- Arianism
The Nestorians
Pelagius
The church of Rome
Ecclesia
The strong and the weak
Possibilities
FY2005 /
Physical description
157 p.; 23 cm
Language
Original language
English