The patient ferment of the early church : the improbable rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire / Alan Kreider.
2016
BR162.3 .K745 2016
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Title
The patient ferment of the early church : the improbable rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire / Alan Kreider.
Author
ISBN
9780801048494 (pbk.)
0801048494 (pbk.)
0801048494 (pbk.)
Published
Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
xiii, 321 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number
BR162.3 .K745 2016
Summary
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 the Roman Empire. Challenging traditional understandings, Kreider contends the church grew because the virtue of patience was of central importance in the life and witness of the early Christians. They wrote about patience, not evangelism, and reflected on prayer, catechesis, and worship, yet the church grew -- not by specific strategies but by patient ferment.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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BR162.3 .K745 2016
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