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The Cambridge history of early Christian literature

The writings of the Church Fathers form a distinct body of literature that shaped the early church and built upon the doctrinal foundations of Christianity established within the New Testament. Christian literature in the period c. 100-c. 400 constitutes one of the most influential textual oeuvres of any religion. Written mainly in Greek, Latin and Syriac, Patristic literature emanated from all parts of the early Christian world and helped to extend its boundaries. The History offers a systematic account of that literature and its setting. The work of individual writers in shaping the various genres of Christian literature is considered, alongside three general essays, covering distinct periods in the development of Christian literature, which survey the social, cultural and doctrinal context within which Christian literature arose and was used by Christians
Print Book, English, 2004
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxv, 538 pages : map ; 24 cm
9780521460835, 9780521697507, 0521460832, 0521697506
52838635
Introduction: the literary culture of the earliest Christianity / Frances Young
The apostolic and sub-apostolic writings: the new testament and the apostolic fathers / Richard A. Norris, Jr
Gnostic literature / Richard A. Norris, Jr
Apocryphal writings and acts of the martyrs / Richard A. Norris, Jr
The apologists / Richard A. Norris, Jr
Irenaeus of Lyon / Richard A. Norris, Jr
Social and historical setting / John Behr
Articulating identity / Richard A. Norris, Jr
Christian teaching / Frances Young
Conclusion: towards a hermeneutic of second-century texts / Frances Young
The Alexandrians / Ronald E. Heine
The beginnings of Latin Christian literature / Ronald E. Heine
Hippolytus, Ps.-Hippolytus and the early canons / Ronald E. Heine
Cyprian and Novatian / Ronald E. Heine
The earliest Syriac literature / Sebastian P. Brock
Concluding review: the literary culture of the third century / Frances Young
Social and historical setting: Christianity as culture critique / Karen Jo Torjesen
Articulating identity / Ronald E. Heine
Christian teaching / John David Dawson
The significance of third-century Christian literature / Frances Young
Classical genres in Christian guise; Christian genres in classical guise / Frances Young
Arnobius and Lactantius / Oliver Nicholson
Eusebius and the birth of church history / Andrew Louth
The fourth-century Alexandrians: Athanasius and Didymus / Andrew Louth
Palestine: Cyril of Jerusalem and Epiphanius / Andrew Louth
The Cappadocians / Andrew Louth
Fourth-century Latin writers: Hilary, Victorinus, Ambrosiaster, Ambrose / David G. Hunter
Jerome and Rufinus / Mark Vessey
Augustine / Henry Chadwick
John Chrysostom and the Antiochene school to Theodoret of Cyrrhus / Andrew Louth
Cyril of Alexandria / Andrew Louth
Hagiography / Andrew Louth
Ephrem and the Syriac tradition / Sebastian P. Brock
The literature of the monastic movement / Andrew Louth
Women and words: texts by and about women / Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Conciliar records and canons / Andrew Louth
Social and historical setting / R.A. Markus
Articulating identity / Lewis Ayres
Christian teaching / Frances Young
Retrospect: interpretation and appropriation / Frances Young
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