The Early Christian Centuries PDF book is popular History book written by Philip Rousseau. The book was released by Routledge on 2014-06-06 with total hardcover pages 342. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read The Early Christian Centuries by Philip Rousseau in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
Charting the first six hundred years of the Christian movement, THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CENTURIES carries the reader from the world of second-temple Judaism to the
An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiqui
Pachomius, who died in 346, has long been regarded as the "founder of monasticism." Available again, Philip Rousseau's careful reading of the available texts re
Rousseau presents a survey of asceticism in the western church until about 400, including a selective study of Jerome, and then, moving into the fifth century.
As it developed an increasingly distinctive character of its own during the first six centuries of the common era, Christianity was constantly forced to reasses