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The Myth of Christian Beginnings

Robert L. Wilken

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Description:s/t: History's Impact on BeliefPreface 1.USE OF THE PAST Memory as Part of Self-Understanding/Vision of America's Past/Magic of Legends/What Is Real?/Xian & Jewish Views/Diversity of Xian Memories/Assumption of an Unchanging Xianity/Authoritative Past 2.OLDER THE BETTER Need for Perspective/Luke & the Canons of History/1st Outline of a Xian Construction of the Past/2 Most Creative Centuries/Hegesippus' Recollections/Church as a Virgin/Tertullian Against Heresy/Time of the Gods/Truth Older than Error 3.BISHOP'S MAIDEN-HISTORY W/OUT HISTORY Eusebius/Ecclesiastical History/Divine Origins/Heretics/Compelling Legends/Standards of Truth/History without Change 4.NO FAITH EXCEPT THE OLD Robber Council/Council of Chalcedon/ Patristic Attitude/Doctrine of the Trinity/Holy Spirit/Growing Importance of Creeds/Peter Abelard5.HATEFUL CHARGE OF NOVELTY Histories of the Reformation Era/ Centuries/Annales Ecclesiastici/1 Certain Trumpet 6.APOSTLES AT YOUR SERVICE Left-Wing Reformers/Pietism/New Critical Principle/Father of Dogmengeschichte/Infallible Bible/Infallible Pope/John Henry Newman/Adolf von Harnack/ Theory of Early Catholicism/Are the Critics Critical Enough?7.YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN Xianity an Innovation/What Was the Original Faith?/Earliest Testimonies/Son of Man/Value of the NT Witness/Lessons from the OT/2 Cases in the History of Xianity/ Nicene Controversy/Diversity & Common Identity8.WHAT HAS BEEN IS NOT WHAT WILL BE Transcending the Present/ Great Fallacy/Xian Vision/Our Post-Constantinian Age/Xian Anti-Semitism/Past Is Never the Whole Story EpilogueNotesWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Myth of Christian Beginnings. To get started finding The Myth of Christian Beginnings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 218

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Doubleday Anchor (Garden City, NY)

Release: 1972

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Description: s/t: History's Impact on BeliefPreface 1.USE OF THE PAST Memory as Part of Self-Understanding/Vision of America's Past/Magic of Legends/What Is Real?/Xian & Jewish Views/Diversity of Xian Memories/Assumption of an Unchanging Xianity/Authoritative Past 2.OLDER THE BETTER Need for Perspective/Luke & the Canons of History/1st Outline of a Xian Construction of the Past/2 Most Creative Centuries/Hegesippus' Recollections/Church as a Virgin/Tertullian Against Heresy/Time of the Gods/Truth Older than Error 3.BISHOP'S MAIDEN-HISTORY W/OUT HISTORY Eusebius/Ecclesiastical History/Divine Origins/Heretics/Compelling Legends/Standards of Truth/History without Change 4.NO FAITH EXCEPT THE OLD Robber Council/Council of Chalcedon/ Patristic Attitude/Doctrine of the Trinity/Holy Spirit/Growing Importance of Creeds/Peter Abelard5.HATEFUL CHARGE OF NOVELTY Histories of the Reformation Era/ Centuries/Annales Ecclesiastici/1 Certain Trumpet 6.APOSTLES AT YOUR SERVICE Left-Wing Reformers/Pietism/New Critical Principle/Father of Dogmengeschichte/Infallible Bible/Infallible Pope/John Henry Newman/Adolf von Harnack/ Theory of Early Catholicism/Are the Critics Critical Enough?7.YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN Xianity an Innovation/What Was the Original Faith?/Earliest Testimonies/Son of Man/Value of the NT Witness/Lessons from the OT/2 Cases in the History of Xianity/ Nicene Controversy/Diversity & Common Identity8.WHAT HAS BEEN IS NOT WHAT WILL BE Transcending the Present/ Great Fallacy/Xian Vision/Our Post-Constantinian Age/Xian Anti-Semitism/Past Is Never the Whole Story EpilogueNotesWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Myth of Christian Beginnings. To get started finding The Myth of Christian Beginnings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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