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Encyclopedia of the Early Church: 2-Volume Set

By Angelo Di Berardino , W.H.C. Frend , Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum , Adrian Walford

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0227679237, 0227679229, 0227678958, 0195208927, 9780227679234, 9780227679227, 9780227678954, 9780195208924
LCC
BR66.5 .D5813 1991
Open Library ID
OL7391947M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
57 MB (59922677 bytes)
Volume
1-2
Pages
568\568
Topic
Religion
Library
archive.org
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-12-31 00:59:41

Description

The Encyclopedia of the Early Church is a two-volume reference work providing concise and precise information on all topics concerning the first eight centuries of Christianity. Valuable to historians, archaeologists, philosophers, and philologists as well as theologians, this work extendsthe knowledge of how Christianity evolved to become the most important influence in the history of Western civilization. Tracing the growth of the church from its tiny beginnings in an upper room to its dominance of Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa in the eighth century, scholars frommany disciplines produced articles ranging from a few sentences to ten thousand words on all the major and most of the minor people, works, ideas, and issues of the formative period of Christianity. The first major encyclopedia to cover the life, thought, and growth of Christianity, this workoffers full treatment of doctrines, creeds, and heresies, of iconography and art history, of archaeology and geography, and of monasticism and asceticism.

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