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Frend, W. H. C.

The early church / W.H.C. Frend. - 1st Fortress Press ed. - Philadelphia : Fortress Press, 1982. - xi, 273 p. ; 23 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1965. With new pref. Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 241-242.

Contents: Rome and the Mediterranean world --
Rome and first-century Judaism --
The primitive community 41-70 --
The old Israel and the new 70-135 --
The Gnostics, Marcion 130-80 --
A generation of crisis 160-85 --
Three cities : Rome, Carthage and Alexandria 185-235 --
Origen --
Decius-Valerian : a decade of persecution 249-59 --
The dawn of the new era 260-303 --
The great persecution 303-12 --
East and West to Nicaea --
The Arian controversy 325-60 --
Julian the Apostate 361-3 --
The triumph of orthodoxy 363-82 --
Ambrose of Milan and Theodosius 381-95 --
Asceticism and the monastic movement in the fourth century --
St. Augustine of Hippo 354-430 --
The conflicts of Eastern Christendom 381-431 --
The development of the papacy from Damasus to Celestine 378-440 --
Leo and Chalcedon 440-61 --
Church and people from Constantine to Leo.

ISBN: 0800616154 :

LCCN: 81043085

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

LC Class. No.: BR 165 / .F75 1982

Dewey Class. No.: 270.1