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The Early Christians: From the Beginnings to Constantine

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The early Christians were by no means a homogeneous group, let alone a church. This is the fascinating story of the beliefs, practices and experience of individual Christians of antiquity, their relationships to Jewish tradition and the wider Roman world, and the shockwaves they caused among their contemporaries. Ancient Christians are closely connected to today's world through a living memory and a common textual heritage - the Bible - even for those who maintain a distance from Christianity. Yet, paradoxically, much about the early Christians is foreign to us and far removed from what passes for this faith as it currently stands. The distinguished historian Hartmut Leppin explores this paradox, and considers how such a small, diverse band of followers originating on the edge of the Roman Empire was able within less than three centuries to grow and become its dominant force under Emperor Constantine and his successors.

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  • Provides a kaleidoscopic view of early Christianity, revealing the development of this new religion from multiple angles
  • Privileges social, economic and political history over theology to focus on the experience of individual Christians of antiquity
  • Uses a diverse range of ancient sources to let voices of the past become audible
Author: Leppin Hartmut
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages: 484
ISBN: 9781316517239
Cover: Hardback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2023

Introduction
Prologue: a dead body is lost to the world
1. Neither Jewish nor pagan?
2. Christian authorities
3. (Not) of this world: caring for self and others
4. Citizens of two worlds
Looking back and ahead
Postscript.

Hartmut Leppin is a Professor of Ancient History at Goethe University, Frankfurt. His research focuses on early Christianity and he has been awarded Germany's highest science prize, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, as well as the Erwin Stein Prize for interdisciplinary work that is also relevant to the present. His publications have been translated into six languages.

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