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The Oxford handbook of early Christian studies

Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Editor), David G. Hunter (Editor)
Provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in Western and Eastern late antiquity. --from publisher description
Print Book, English, 2008
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008
Aufsatzsammlung
xxvii, 1020 pages ; 26 cm.
9780199271566, 9780199596522, 0199271569, 0199596522
182738683
PART ONE: PROLEGOMENA ; PART TWO: EVIDENCE: MATERIAL AND TEXTUAL ; PART THREE: IDENTITIES ; PART FOUR: REGIONS ; PART FIVE: STRUCTURES AND AUTHORITIES ; PART SIX: EXPRESSIONS OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE ; PART SEVEN: RITUAL, PIETY, AND PRACTICE ; PART EIGHT: THEOLOGICAL THEMES
Series statement from book jacket