{"product_id":"tt-clark-handbook-of-the-early-church-9780567700582","title":"TT Clark Handbook of the Early Church","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlaria Ramelli \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of the Early Church at Sacre Cuore Milan, and at the Angelicum Rome, Italy. \u003cb\u003eJohn A. McGuckin\u003c\/b\u003e is the Nielsen Professor Emeritus of Early Christian History at Union Theological Seminary, USA.\u003cb\u003ePiotr Ashwin-Siejkowski \u003c\/b\u003eis a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London, UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis exciting handbook of the Early Church will intrigue laypersons, clergy and scholars alike.  It departs from the traditional “history of doctrine” to focus on the struggles of early Christian communities to organize themselves, to sort out the roles of women, slaves, children and the differently abled and to create forms of unity within the remarkable diversity they embraced. -- Karen Jo Torjesen, Claremont Graduate Union California, USA\u003cbr\u003eThis Handbook is a breath of fresh air: it breaks free of the usual history of doctrine approach to the early Church to give an account of the wide range of different contexts in which Christian self-understanding and practice were formed. It will enable those who study this extraordinary period to learn with and within the early Church; to have their thinking and actions shaped and informed by it. -- Carol Harrison, University of Oxford, UK\u003cbr\u003eThis is a wonderfully rich collection of essays exploring many different aspects of the early centuries of Christian history, theology, spirituality, and so much more. It is sure to become the standard go-to handbook for scholars, students, and all those interested in early Christianity. -- John Behr, Aberdeen University, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: On studying the early church \u003ci\u003eRowan Williams\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge University, UK)   \u003cb\u003ePart 1: Emerging Christian identity 1st century CE.\u003c\/b\u003e  1. Jewish-Christian relations – A painful split, \u003ci\u003eMarkus Vinzent\u003c\/i\u003e (King’s College London, UK) 2. Graeco-Roman culture and Christians: Good neighbours? \u003ci\u003ePiotr Ashwin-Siejkowski\u003c\/i\u003e (King’s College London, UK) 3. What was the role of women in the churches? \u003ci\u003eIlaria Ramelli \u003c\/i\u003e(Catholic University, Angelicum, Princeton, USA) 4. To what extent were children and slaves welcomed in the early church? \u003ci\u003eVille Vuolanto\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Tampere, Finland) 5. Disability in the early church, \u003ci\u003eMonica Tobon,\u003c\/i\u003e (Franciscan Study Centre, UK) 6. Eschatology in the early Christian thought-world, \u003ci\u003eJohn A. McGuckin\u003c\/i\u003e (Union Theological Seminary, USA)  \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Diversity and unity in the second century\u003c\/b\u003e  7. Christianity and Christianities, \u003ci\u003eMark Edwards \u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford University, UK) 8. The church’s unity around the bishop: Ignatius of Antioch and Irenaeus of Lyons, \u003ci\u003eAllen Brent\u003c\/i\u003e (King’s College London, UK) 9. Unity around a teacher: Clement and Origen, \u003ci\u003eIlaria L. E. Ramelli\u003c\/i\u003e (Catholic University, Italy) 10. Diversity around a prophet: The case of Montanism, \u003ci\u003eWilliam Tabbernee \u003c\/i\u003e(Theological Seminar in Tulsa, USA) 11. Unity around a martyr: Perpetua and Felicity, \u003ci\u003eSarah Parkhouse \u003c\/i\u003e(University of Durham, UK)  \u003cb\u003ePart 3: Worship and faith\u003c\/b\u003e  13. Community and liturgy: Emerging of the Trinitarian formula baptism, \u003ci\u003ePiotr Ashwin-Siejkowski \u003c\/i\u003e(King’s College London, UK) 14. The community’s commemoration of Jesus in the Eucharist, \u003ci\u003eJohn A. McGuckin\u003c\/i\u003e (Union Theological Seminary, USA) 15. Prayer and poetry in the early Christian community, \u003ci\u003ePaul Bradshaw\u003c\/i\u003e 16. The Christian community and its structure: Deacons, priests and bishops, \u003ci\u003ePaul van Geest\u003c\/i\u003e (Tilburg University, the Netherlands) \u003ci\u003eand Bart J. Koet\u003c\/i\u003e 17. Dismissal from the clerical state and its consequences in the early church, \u003ci\u003eHenryk Pietras\u003c\/i\u003e (Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, Italy) 18. Graeco-Roman and Christian art in late antiquity, \u003ci\u003eJas Elsner \u003c\/i\u003e(University of Oxford, UK) 19. The community’s hope: Soteriology in the early church, \u003ci\u003eRobert Daly SJ\u003c\/i\u003e (Boston College USA)  \u003cb\u003ePart 4: Under Christian emperors\u003c\/b\u003e  20. From the community of martyrs to the church of the empire, \u003ci\u003eGiulio Maspero\u003c\/i\u003e (University of the Holy Cross, Italy) 21. Doctrine: Why were Christians obsessed with dogmas? \u003ci\u003eIlaria L. E. Ramelli\u003c\/i\u003e (Catholic University, Italy) 22. Councils: The path towards an agreement in faith, \u003ci\u003eHenryk Pietras \u003c\/i\u003e(Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, Italy) 23. ‘Light from light’: The metaphysics of light of the early church, \u003ci\u003eIsidoros Charalambos Katsos\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge University, UK) 24. The oigins of monasticism, \u003ci\u003eTim Vivian (\u003c\/i\u003eCalifornia State University, USA\u003ci\u003e)\u003c\/i\u003e 25. Persecution of heretics, \u003ci\u003eMarcin Wysocki\u003c\/i\u003e (KUL, Poland) 26. The Western church and its thought-world (major Latin Fathers),\u003ci\u003e John A. McGuckin \u003c\/i\u003e(Union Theological Seminary, USA) 27. The Eastern church and its thought-world (major Greek Fathers),\u003ci\u003e John A. McGuckin\u003c\/i\u003e (Union Theological Seminary, USA) 28. The Coptic church: Faithful to its roots, \u003ci\u003eMark Sheridan \u003c\/i\u003e(Collegio San Anselmo Rome, Italy) 29. The Syriac Orthodox Church, \u003ci\u003eSaliba Er Akhsenoyo \u003c\/i\u003e(Salzburg University, Germany)  \u003cb\u003ePart 5: The early church and systematic theology\u003c\/b\u003e  30. Does Jerusalem still need Athens? \u003ci\u003eGeorge Geréby\u003c\/i\u003e (Central European University, Hungary) 31. Is the Canon of the Scriptures closed? Recent interest in the Nag Hammadi Codices, \u003ci\u003ePaula Tutty\u003c\/i\u003e (Oslo University, Norway) 32. The early church’s developing theology of (new) creation, \u003ci\u003ePaul Blowers\u003c\/i\u003e (Milligan University, USA) 33. Suffering of Christ: Suffering of people, \u003ci\u003eStefano Salemi\u003c\/i\u003e (King’s College London, UK) 34. The Church: One, holy, catholic, apostolic, \u003ci\u003eNicolas Sagovsky\u003c\/i\u003e (King’s College London, UK)  Glossary Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037214671191,"sku":"9780567700582","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780567700582.jpg?v=1750934825","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tt-clark-handbook-of-the-early-church-9780567700582","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}