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How did the early Christians manage to establish a religion which, despite persecution, flourished and grew? How did their initial experience of being a despised minority in the Roman Empire shape their sense of privileged identity and uniqueness? And how was it that, at least at the outset, the first believers were able to exist alongside the same shared traditions, rituals and beliefs of the Jews, despite the Jewish rejection of Jesus as Messiah? The Christian community was born out of paradox: its faith in a man who was also the ‘anointed one‘ (or Christ) sent by God; and its growth and development often echoed those complex and contradictory origins. Focusing on the Church as a nascent institution whose long-term future w as far from assured, Morwenna Ludlow discusses the emerging core beliefs of Christianity (such as divine creation, salvation, eschatology, the humanity and divinity of Christ and the inter-relationships of the Trinity) between 50 and 600 CE. She assesses the significance for the early Church of Constantine’s ‘conversion’, and examines the process of Christian self-definition in response to groups on the fringes of the community, such as Gnostics, Marcionites

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Author

Morwenna Ludlow

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published

2008

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction