История Христианства с древнейших времен до наших дней.
Once upon a time, historians of the early church wrote a simple story of a pristine faith received from Jesus Christ and communicated to his disciples.
With an agreed gospel summed up in the Apostles’ Creed, they dispersed to spread the word in all directions. In time, however, this unified message was frustrated by distortions called heresies, which produced their own offspring, multiplying and diversifying, by contrast with the one truth entrusted to the apostles. Despite heresy and persecution, however, Christianity triumphed with the conversion of Constantine. Doubtless that is an over-simplification of an over-simplification, yet it is towards the goal of emancipation from such a schematised view of earliest Christianity (a perspective inherited from the ancient sources themselves) that much modern critical scholarship has been directed.
The recognition of diversity within Christianity from the very beginning has transformed study of its origins. Simple models of development, or single theory explanations, whether they be applied to organisational, liturgical, doctrinal or other aspects of early church history, are recognisably inadequate. We have endeavoured to capture the complexity of early Christianity and its socio-cultural setting, whilst also indicating some of the elements that make it possible to trace a certain coherence, a recognisable identity, maintained over time and defended
resolutely despite cultural pressure that could have producedsomething other.
resolutely despite cultural pressure that could have producedsomething other.
It is thanks to interdisciplinary scholarship, together with the variety of new evidence provided by archaeological activities and by chance finds such as the Dead Sea scrolls and the Nag Hammadi library, that this project is possible. Inevitably, the essays assembled here are brief overviews of what have become vast areas of research, but we hope that their virtue is the fact that, both severally and together, they provide balance and perspective, coherence and diversity, as well as the means to explore further the complex topics with which they engage.
The Cambridge History of Christianity - Кембриджская история христианства - 9 томов
Cambridge university press, 2006.
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The Cambridge History of Christianity - Кембриджская история христианства - Содержание и выходные данные
- The Cambridge History of Christianity Vol. 1. Origins to Constantine. Margaret M. Mitchell, Frances M. Young and K. Scott Bowie. 2006.
- The Cambridge History of Christianty Vol. 2. Constantine to c. 600. Augustine Casiday and Frederick W. Norris. 2007.
- The Cambridge History of Christianity Vol. 3. Early Medieval Christianities c. 600–c. 1100. Thomas F.X. Noble and Julia M.H. Smith. 2008.
- The Cambridge History of Christianity Vol. 4. Christianity in Western Europe c. 1100–c. 1500. Miri Rubin and Walter Simons. 1987.
- The Cambridge History of Christianity Vol. 5. Eastern Christianity Michael Angold. 2006.
- The Cambridge History of Christianity Vol. 6. Reform and Expansion 1500–1660. R. Po-Chia Hsia 2007.
- The Cambridge History of Christianity Vol. 7. Enlightenment, Reawakening and Revolution 1660–1815. Stewart J. Brown and Timothy Tackett. 2006.
- The Cambridge History of Christianity Vol. 8. World Christianities c.1815–c.1914. Sheridan Gilley and Brian Stanley. 2006.
- The Cambridge History of Christianity Vol. 9. World Christianities c.1914–c.2000. Hugh McLeod. 2006.
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