1st Edition

Christianity in Relation to Jews, Greeks, and Romans

Edited By Everett Ferguson Copyright 1999
414 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1999. The specific aspects of the social setting of Christianity in the early centuries of the common era (examined in Vol. I) lead into consideration of the religious, philosophical, and political setting of early Christianity. These overlapping factors in the environment of early Christianity involve contacts respectively, but not exclusively, with Jews, Greeks, and Romans.

Series Introduction, Volume Introduction Origen, the Rabbis, and the Bible: Toward a Picture of Judaism and Christianity in Third-Century Caesarea, Origen on the Jews, Excaecati Occulta Justitia Dei: Augustine on Jews and Judaism, Santa Maria Maggiore's Fifth-Century Mosaics: Triumphal Christianity and the Jews, Justin's Logos and the Word of God, Arguments for Faith in Clement of Alexandria, Stoic Logic as Handmaid to Exegesis and Theology in Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John, The Philosophy in Christianity: Arius and Athanasius, Non-Being and Evil in Gregory of Nyssa, St. Augustine as Philosopher: The Birth of Christian Metaphysics, The Structure and Intention of Augustine's De Trinitate, Augustine on Magic: A Neglected Semiotic Theory, Early Christian Martyrdom and Civil Disobedience 279 Christo logical Content and Its Biblical Basis in the Letter of the Martyrs of Gaul, Women Among the Early Martyrs, Religion and Politics in the Writings of Eusebius: Reassessing the First Court Theologian, The Ecclesiastical Building Policy of Constantine, Constantine and Consensus.

Biography

Everett Ferguson is Professor of Church History Emeritus at Abilene Christian University. A specialist in early Christian history, his work in this field includes the books Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, Studies in Early Christianity, and The Church of Christ: A Biblical Ecclesiology for Today