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A new History of Early Christianity [Audiobook] download free by Charles Freeman

A new History of Early Christianity Audiobook download free by Charles Freeman
  • Listen audiobook: A new History of Early Christianity
  • Author: Charles Freeman
  • Release date: 2011/5/4
  • Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Religious
  • ISBN: 9780300170832
  • Rating: 9.13 of 10
  • Votes: 729
  • Review by: Isabel Fredericks
  • Review rating: 7.2 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/5
  • Duration: 5H1M52S in 256 kbps (80 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-09
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MP3, WMA Lossless, MPEG4, WAV, OGG, WMA (compression TAR.LZO, CAB, AZW, ZIP, RAR)
  • Total pages original book: 400
  • Includes a PDF summary of 45 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 33M45S (9 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. A New History of Early Christianity shows how our current debates are rooted in the many controversies surrounding the birth of the religion and the earliest attempts to resolve them. Charles Freeman's meticulous historical account of Christianity from its birth in Judaea in the first century A.D. to the emergence of Western and Eastern churches by A.D. 600 reveals that it was a distinctive, vibrant, and incredibly diverse movement brought into order at the cost of intellectual and spiritual vitality. Against the conventional narrative of the inevitable 'triumph' of a single distinct Christianity, Freeman shows that there was a host of competing Christianities, many of which had as much claim to authenticity as those that eventually dominated. Looking with fresh eyes at the historical record, Freeman explores the ambiguities and contradictions that underlay Christian theology and the unavoidable compromises enforced in the name of doctrine. Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent-from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state-Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith. The imposition of 'correct belief,' religious uniformity, and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the difficulties in establishing the Christian church, he examines its relationship with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman society, and he offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, and the church fathers and emperors.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Church History, Christian Books, Ancient History: To C 500 CE, History Of Religion, Christian Institutions & Organizations
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 20.08 USD
  • Dimensions: 127x197x29mm
  • Weight: 431g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: United States

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EBURY PUBLISHING HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS DAVID C COOK PUBLISHING COMPANY JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Religious Biography
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D. A. Carson Ann Rule Joyce Meyer Alison Weir Thomas Nelson
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