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The Early Christians: From the Beginnings to Constantine
Category: Books > Reference > Reference Books
Author/Artist: HARTMUT LEPPIN
ISBN / ID: 9781316517239
Publisher: Cambridge Uni Press
Binding: HARDBACK
Price: AU$66.99
  
Description: The early Christians were by no means a homogeneous group, let alone a church. This is the fascinating story of the beliefs, practices, and experiences of individual Christians of antiquity, their relationships to Jewish tradition and the wider Roman world, and the shock waves they caused among their contemporaries. Ancient Christians are closely connected to today's world through a living memory and a common textual heritage - the Bible - even for those who maintain a distance from Christianity.

Yet, paradoxically, much about the early Christians is foreign to us and far removed from what passes for this faith as it currently stands.

Historian Hartmut Leppin explores this paradox and considers how such a small, diverse band of followers originating on the edge of the Roman Empire was able within less than three centuries to grow and become its dominant force under Emperor Constantine and his successors.
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