The Early Christian Church: Volume 1, The First Christian Church

Archbishop Carrington examines the rise and development of the Christian Church during the first two centuries after the Crucifixion.

Philip Carrington (Author)

9780521166416, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 August 2011

576 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.84 kg

This is a 1957 account of the rise and development of the Christian Church during the first two centuries after the Crucifixion. The events are set down in the order in which they happened, giving a clear picture of the establishment, progress, sufferings and survival of the new faith. It focuses special attention on the men who decisively affected its history. Christianity began as a sect of the Hellenized Judaism which had believers all over the Eastern Roman Empire. It grew up against dissension from inside and oppression from outside. Archbishop Carrington's account of Christianity is placed in the setting of the larger world of Imperial politics, rival religions and troubled times. The author does not offer this book as a conventional history for the scholar, yet it can be read for pleasure as well as for information. There are over 100 photographs and chronological tables, and reading lists.

List of illustrations
List of maps and tables
The sources
Introduction
1. The Hellenistic Period
2. Galilee and Jerusalem
3. Caesarea
4. Antioch and Galatia
5. Conference in Jerusalem
6. Macedonia and Achaia
7. Ephesus
8. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
9. Paul in Rome
10. The martyrdoms
11. The tradition of Peter
12. The fall of Jerusalem
13. Jewish Christianity
14. The Pauline successors
15. Christian literature under Vespasian
16. The Elders in Asia Minor
17. The Syrian Gospel
18. The tyranny of Domitian
19. The Ephesian Gospel
20. Corinth and Rome
21. Hermas and his angel
22. Oriental Christianity
23. The wars of Trajan
24. Ingatius the Martyr
25. Apostolic tradition
26. Catechism and sacrament
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Church history [HRCC2]