Origins of Christendom in the West

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A study of the first four centuries of Christianity, asking what is Christianity's impact upon culture, what is culture's impact upon Christianity and what is the future for Christianity Included in the work are insights from scholars in ancient history, theology, patristics and liturgy.

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"This is an important book . . . stimulating and scholarly."--Theology
"The book has many strengths...[including] footnotes which include interaction with recent scholarship, the index and list of contributors enhance the value of the book" --Themelios
"A beautiful volume of collected essays...The result is a thought-provoking book: a collection of surveys of Christianity in the West in the first centuries of its existence, all addressing a specific research question, all chronologically covering the same substantial period but all doing this from a different viewpoint. To this can be added that the essays are invariably of high quality and written in an engaging style. The result is a very accessible book that can serve very well as supplementary reading for a course of Early Church History." Johan Leemans, Faculty of Theology, Leuven, Belgium, Heythrop Journal * Heythrop Journal *

Author Bio

Dr Alan Kreider was Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, Regents Park College, Oxford, and now teaches at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Indiana.