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Apocryphal books (New Testament) Criticism, interpretation, etc Apostles Fiction Christian heresies History Early church, ca. 30-600 Christianity Church history Middle Ages, 600-1500 Church history Primitive and early church Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Fiction Gnosticism Tarsus (Turkey) FictionEhrman, Bart D
Contents: Guided tours of heaven and hell -- The fear of death -- Life after death before there was life after death -- Will justice be done? : the rise of postmortem rewards and punishments -- Death after death in the Hebrew Bible -- Dead bodies that return to life : the resurrection in ancient Israel -- Why wait for the resurrection? : life after death right after death -- Jesus and the afterlife --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 236 EHRKoman, Alan J.
Summary: For anyone interested in his or her own genealogical links to medieval Europe and early Christianity, Alan Koman's new book offers an extraordinary opportunity. For the first time, the lives of 275 early European saints are retold and accompanied by lineages connected those saints to twenty-four of the great men and women of medieval Europe. Today, those twenty-four men and women have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2010
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3 KOMEhrman, Bart D.
Summary: Presents a history of Christianity from the time of Jesus to the end of the fourth century. Includes examination of Jewish-Christian relationships, Christian relationships with the Roman Empire, persecution of Christians, and the development of church offices and theology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 230 EHR Part 1Call number: CD 230 EHR Part 2
Jenkins, Philip
Summary: Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth century. Jenkins argues that were it not for these controversies, the papacy as we know it would never have come into existence and that today's church could be teaching some-thing very different about Jesus. It is only an accident of history that one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270.2 JENEhrman, Bart D.
Summary: In The Triumph of Christianity, Bart Ehrman, a master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, shows how a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four centuries. The Triumph of Christianity combines deep knowledge and meticulous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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Summary: "For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture have credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul. But hidden behind these named and sainted individuals are a cluster of unnamed, enslaved coauthors and collaborators. These essential workers were responsible for producing the earliest manuscripts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: Provides an overview of Christianity, the world's largest religion, and discusses why, in addition to being vast and popular, it is also extremely complex and often highly contradictory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 230 JOHEhrman, Bart D.
Summary: Twenty-four lectures on the history and varieties of Christian doctrines in the early church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 229.9206 EHRPagels, Elaine H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 241.66 PAGKreiner, Jamie
Summary: "A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge, and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 206 KREFreeman, Charles
Summary: A radical reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity in 368 AD on the later Roman world, and on Western civilization. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, Constantine turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Johnson, Luke Timothy.
Summary: Provides an overview of Christianity, the world's largest religion, and discusses why, in addition to being vast and popular, it is also extremely complex and often highly contradictory. Explains why the central figures, elements, and creeds of Christianity are hard to fathom yet give Christianity its distinctive character. Covers topics such as Christianity's birth and expansion across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 GRETabor, James D.
Summary: Discusses a recent archaeological discovery in Jerusalem that the authors claim is the earliest evidence of the resurrection of Christ, and reopens the historical discussion about the family tomb of Jesus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 232.96 TABLitfin, Bryan M.
Summary: "Rome stands at the brink of war. Constantine's army is on the move. Will the barbarian warrior and the senator's daughter live to see the Empire bow the knee to Christ?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Litfin 2020Rivers, Francine
Summary: Atretes, German warrior. Revered gladiator. He won his freedom through his fierceness ... but his life is changed forever when he learns his son is alive. Atretes vows to find his son and return to Germania. Only one thing stands in his way: Rizpah, the young widow who adopted his abandoned baby. But Atretes is undaunted. One woman should be no trouble at all. It doesn't take him long to find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RivStephenson, Paul.
Summary: Surveys the life and legacy of the first Christian Roman emperor, describing the vision that inspired his religious conversion and subsequent conquest of the imperial capital, his founding of Constantinople, and his role in promoting a unified Christian Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONSummary: The three centuries following the death of Jesus were a momentous and turbulent era in Western religious thought. During this time, as Christianity began its massive growth, few if any influences on the theological landscape were as significant as the religious movements know as Gnosticism. Gnosticism intersected deeply with early Christian thought, sparking religious ideologies that competed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 GNOAugustine
Summary: St. Augustine's view of history and humanity reflect his dedication to Christian thought and theology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 239 AUGEhrman, Bart D.
Contents: Major Christian Apocrypha discussed, dates and contents -- Recouping our losses -- Forgeries and discoveries. The ancient discovery of a forgery : Serapion and the Gospel of Peter ;The ancient forgery of a discovery : the Acts of Paul and Thecla ; The discovery of an ancient forgery : the Coptic Gospel of Thomas ; The forgery of an ancient discovery? : Morton Smith and the secret Gospel of Mark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270.1 LANFletcher, Richard.
Summary: "An investigation of the process by which large parts of Europe accepted the Christian faith between the fourth and the fourteenth centuries and of some of the cultural consequences that flowed therefrom. In a work of splendid scholarship that reflects both a firm mastery of difficult sources and a keen intuition, one of Britain's foremost medievalists tells the story of the Christianization of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt and Co. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 274.02 FLECannon, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCaldwell, Taylor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1970