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But some of its influence persisted all over Europe, and it had a large share in shaping the culture that ultimately emerged from the dark ages. This book's fascination is the picture that it gives of the movements of peoples, the shaping of new countries, and the development of ideas during those too-little-known centuries.

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Did Chinese mysticism vanish after its first appearance in ancient Taoist philosophy, to surface only after a thousand years had passed, when the Chinese had adapted Buddhism to their own culture This survey of the mystical dimension of Taoism disputes the commonly accepted idea of such a hiatus.

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For the past hundred years, much has been written about the early editions of Christian texts discovered in the region that was once Roman Egypt. Scholars have cited these papyrus manuscripts--containing the Bible and other Christian works--as evidence of Christianity's presence in that historic area during the first three centuries AD.

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Provides a study of the rise, development and use of formularies in the creative centuries of the Church's history. This book opens with an examination of creedal elements in the New Testament and features an enquiry into the relation of creeds to the rite of Baptism. It also contains a reconstruction of the expansion of the Roman Creed.

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A history of the doctrines of the Early Church, this text describes the development of the principal Christian doctrines from the close of the first century to the middle of the fifth, from the end of the apostolic age to the Council of Chalcedon.

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Offers analysis of intertexuality within Early Christian literature. This title includes essays that explore the use of Old Testament scripture in the Gospels and Acts. It examines the apostle Paul's interpretation of scripture in his letters, and looks at non-Pauline writings and their utilization of scripture.

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Offers analysis of intertexuality within Early Christian literature. This collection of essays treats pre-Christian texts, as well as Christian texts, that make use of older sacred tradition. It analyzes the respective uses of scripture in diverse Jewish and Christian traditions.

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Focuses on the subject of widows in early Christianity and the first two centuries CE, including their social-economic situation, means of support and contributions to the early church.

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This five-session small group Bible study, Early Church, by noted teacher and historian, Ray Vander Laan, is volume five of the That the World May Know series. In it, Vander Laan uncovers the passion of early believers as they claimed Jesus in the face of fierce consequences.

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"Margaret Williams examines how classical writers saw and portrayed Jesus. The volume shows how each of the early classical writers who mentions him (the historian Tacitus; the biographer Suetonius; the epistolographer Pliny, the satirist Lucian and the philosopher Celsus) takes a different view of Jesus and presents him in a different way." --

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This revealing history examines the controversies, maneuvering, and political wrangling that occupied the Christian Church for the first four centuries of its existence.

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An exploration of the ascetical theology and praxis of sixth to eighth century Irish monasticism as a radical response to the gospel. This book claims that the radicality of this response arose from the cultural consciousness of the Celts. It concentrates on the Irish Celts and uses a variety of sources including pre and post-Christian elements.

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Explores the ascetical theology and praxis of sixth to eighth century Irish monasticism as a radical response to the Gospel. This book claims that the radicality of this response arose from the distinctive cultural consciousness of the Celts. It concentrates on the Irish Celts and makes use of a variety of sources.

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