The patient ferment of the early church
How and why did the early church grow in the first four hundred years despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional persecution? In this unique historical study, veteran scholar Alan Kreider delivers the fruit of a lifetime of study as he tells the amazing story of the spread of Christianity in...
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| Glavni autor: | Kreider, Alan, 1941- (-) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
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Grand Rapids, MI :
Baker Academic,
[2016]
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Sadržaj:
- Growth and patience
- The improbable growth of the church
- The good of patience
- Push and pull
- Ferment
- Christians as agents of growth
- Communities as cultures of patience
- Forming the habitus
- Catechesis and baptism
- Worship
- "Wise doves" in the Didascalia apostolorum
- The transformation of patience
- The impatience of Constantine
- Augustine and the just impatience.