Tradition and Diversity Christianity in a World Context to 1500

Part 1 Orthodoxy and Eterodoxy - Foundations of Christianity circa 50-450 CE: Jew and Gentile - Early Origins of Christianity - Jesus was Jewish - John's Story of the Samaritan Woman at the Well, The Gospel According to Paul - Jew and Gentile in Galatians, Ritual Practice - the Baptism Ceremony of Hippolytus; Christian and Roman - Conflict and Assimilation - Persecution - Dionysius the Wise, Patriarch of Alexandria, Revelation Versus Reason - Tertullian and Clement, Converting the Empire - Eusebius' Account of Constantine and Helen, Roman Versus Christian - the Altar of Victory Dispute; Heterodoxy and Orthodoxy - Defining Heresy - Ayrian Gnosticism - the Book of Thomas the Contender, Origenism - the End of the World, Arianism - Arius and the Nicene Creed, Nestorians - Nestorius, Cyril and Chalcedon; Life and Death - the Body and Resurrection - Heroic Martyrdom - Perpetua, Contemplative Death - Macrina, Hope of Resurrection - Tomb Inscriptions. Part 2 Patterns of Accommodation in Late Antiquity, circa 350-750: The Heritage of the Middle Ages - Creating an Authoritative Bible - Jerome, The Two Cities - Augustine of Hippo, Neoplatonic Mysticism - Pseudo-Dionysius and the Areopagite, The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius; The Power of Christian Saints - Monks, Relics and Icons - Desert Fathers and Mothers - Abba Antony and Amma Syncletica, The Monastic Examplar - the Life of St. Benedict and the Rule of St. Benedict, Relics and Pilgrimage - the Martinellus of St. Martin of Tours, Byzantine Worship - the Debate over Iconoclasm; Adaptations of Christianity Outside the Roman World - Saintly Heroes in Ethiopia - the Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church, The Conversion of Nubia - John of Ephesus on Justinian and Theodora's Competition, Heroic Martyrs in South Arabia - the Women of Najran, Nestorian Christians in China - Stele; Christian Acculturation in Western Europe - Celtic Christianity and Hermetic Life - St. Columba's Rule, Frankish Christianity - Gregory of Tours on Clovis and Clothilde, Anglo-Saxon Christianity - Bede on Edwin and Ethelberga, Saxon Missions - Boniface and Leoba. Part 3 Christian Society in the Early Middle Ages circa 600-1050: Christian Kingship and Society - Theories of Authority and Power - Pope Gelasius I and Emperor Justinian, Royal Rituals and Laws - Visigothic Spain, Christian Emperor - Views on the Coronation of Charlemagne, Christian King - Alfred the Great; Christian Education and Theology - The Carolingian Renaissance - Charlemagne and Alcuin, Renaissance Theology - John Scottus Eruigena, Vernacular Learning - Alfred's Programme; Christian Practice and Literature - Sermons - Alfric of Eynsham, Liturgy - Rites for the Living and the Dead, Christian Poetry - the Dream of the Rood, Christian Drama - Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Abraham; Christian Diversity and Accommodation - Conversion by Treaty - the Vikings, Animism and Accommodation - Charms, Dialogue - the Dispute of the (Part contents)

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Karen Louise Jolly