| Titre : |
The first thousand years : a global history of Christianity |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Robert L. (Robert Louis) Wilken (1936-), Auteur |
| Editeur : |
New Haven : Yale University Press |
| Année de publication : |
©2012 |
| Importance : |
x, 388 p. |
| Présentation : |
illustrations (some color) |
| Format : |
24 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-300-11884-1 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Church history -- Primitive and early church.
Church history--Middle Ages
|
| Index. décimale : |
BR 162.3 |
| Résumé : |
This work is a narrative account of the history of Christianity from its beginning to the end of the first millennium. The principal theme is the slow drama of the building of a Christian civilization. A major theme is the mission of Christians among different peoples in many regions of the ancient world: Ethiopia, Nubia, Armenia, Georgia, Persia, central Asia, India, China as well as among the Germanic peoples of |
| Note de contenu : |
Introduction --
Beginning in Jerusalem --
Ephesus, Rome, and Edessa: the spread of Christianity --
The making of a Christian community --
Divisions within --
Constructing a catacomb --
A learned faith: Origen of Alexandria --
Persecution: Cyprian of Carthage --
A Christian emperor: Constantine --
The Council of Nicaea and the Christian creed --
Monasticism --
A Christian Jerusalem --
Emperor Julian, the Jews, and Christians --
Bishop and Emperor: Ambrose and Theodosius --
Architecture and art --
Music and worship --
The sick, the aged, and the poor : the birth of hospitals --
The Bishop of Rome as pope --
An ordered Christian society: canon law --
Augustine of Hippo --
The great controversy over Christ --
Egypt and the Copts: Nubia --
African Zion: Ethiopia --
Syriac-speaking Christians: the Church of the East --
Armenia and Georgia --
Central Asia, China, and India --
A Christian empire: Justinian --
New beginnings in the West --
Latin Christianity spreads north --
The sacking of Jerusalem: more controversy over Christ --
No God but God: the rise of Islam --
Images and the making of Byzantium --
Arabic-speaking Christians --
Christians under Islam: Egypt and North Africa --
Christians under Islam: Spain --
An emperor in the West: Charlemagne --
Christianity among the Slavs --
Afterword --
Chronology and maps --
Suggested readings --
Translations. |
The first thousand years : a global history of Christianity [texte imprimé] / Robert L. (Robert Louis) Wilken (1936-), Auteur . - New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012 . - x, 388 p. : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. ISBN : 978-0-300-11884-1 Langues : Anglais ( eng) Langues originales : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Church history -- Primitive and early church.
Church history--Middle Ages
|
| Index. décimale : |
BR 162.3 |
| Résumé : |
This work is a narrative account of the history of Christianity from its beginning to the end of the first millennium. The principal theme is the slow drama of the building of a Christian civilization. A major theme is the mission of Christians among different peoples in many regions of the ancient world: Ethiopia, Nubia, Armenia, Georgia, Persia, central Asia, India, China as well as among the Germanic peoples of |
| Note de contenu : |
Introduction --
Beginning in Jerusalem --
Ephesus, Rome, and Edessa: the spread of Christianity --
The making of a Christian community --
Divisions within --
Constructing a catacomb --
A learned faith: Origen of Alexandria --
Persecution: Cyprian of Carthage --
A Christian emperor: Constantine --
The Council of Nicaea and the Christian creed --
Monasticism --
A Christian Jerusalem --
Emperor Julian, the Jews, and Christians --
Bishop and Emperor: Ambrose and Theodosius --
Architecture and art --
Music and worship --
The sick, the aged, and the poor : the birth of hospitals --
The Bishop of Rome as pope --
An ordered Christian society: canon law --
Augustine of Hippo --
The great controversy over Christ --
Egypt and the Copts: Nubia --
African Zion: Ethiopia --
Syriac-speaking Christians: the Church of the East --
Armenia and Georgia --
Central Asia, China, and India --
A Christian empire: Justinian --
New beginnings in the West --
Latin Christianity spreads north --
The sacking of Jerusalem: more controversy over Christ --
No God but God: the rise of Islam --
Images and the making of Byzantium --
Arabic-speaking Christians --
Christians under Islam: Egypt and North Africa --
Christians under Islam: Spain --
An emperor in the West: Charlemagne --
Christianity among the Slavs --
Afterword --
Chronology and maps --
Suggested readings --
Translations. |
|  |
Accueil
trié(s) par (Pertinence décroissant(e), Titre croissant(e)) Ajouter le résultat dans votre panier Affiner la rechercheThe Christians as the Romans saw them / / Robert L. (Robert Louis) Wilken
