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Summary
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies responds to and celebrates the explosion of research in this inter-disciplinary field over recent decades. As a one-volume reference work, it provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines thevast geographical area impacted by the early church, in Western and Eastern late antiquity. It is thematically arranged to encompass history, literature, thought, practices, and material culture. It contains authoritative and up-to-date surveys of current thinking and research in the varioussub-specialties of early Christian studies, written by leading figures in the discipline. The essays orientate readers to a given topic, as well as to the trajectory of research developments over the past 30-50 years within the scholarship itself. Guidance for future research is also given. Eachessay points the reader towards relevant forms of extant evidence (texts, documents, or examples of material culture), as well as to the appropriate research tools available for the area.This volume will be useful to advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as to specialists in any area who wish to consult a brief review of the 'state of the question' in a particular area or sub-specialty of early Christian studies, especially one different from their own.
Table of Contents
Preface | |
Part 1 | |
From Patristics to Early Christian Studies | |
Literature, Patristics, Early Christian Writing | |
Which Early Christianity? | |
Evidence: Material and Textual | |
Material Evidence (1): Archaeology | |
Material Evidence (2): Visual Culture | |
Epigraphy | |
Paleography and Codicology | |
Identities | |
Jews and Christians | |
Pagans and Christians | |
'Gnosticism' | |
Manichaeism | |
Arius and Arians | |
Pelagius and Pelagians | |
Regions | |
The West (1): Italy, Gaul, and Spain | |
The West (2): North Africa | |
The East (1): Greece and Asia Minor | |
The East (2): Egypt and Palestin | |
The East (3): Syria and Mesopotamia | |
Clergy and Laity | |
The Biblical Canon | |
Creeds, Councils, and Canon | |
Church and Empire | |
Household and Family | |
Women and Gender | |
Monastic Life | |
Expressions of Christian Culture | |
Early Christian Apocryphal Literature | |
Apologetics | |
Homiletics | |
Early Christian Historiography | |
Martyrology and Hagiography | |
Poetry and Hymnography (1): Latin | |
Poetry and Hymnography (2): Greek | |
Poetry and Hymnography (3): Syriac | |
Christian Philosoph | |
Ritual, Piety, and Practice | |
Christian Initiation | |
Eucharistic Liturgy | |
Prayer | |
Asceticis | |
Penance | |
Martyrdom and the Cult of the Saints | |
Pilgrimage | |
Theological Themes | |
Interpretation of Scripture | |
Doctrine of God | |
Christ and Christologies | |
Doctrine of Creation | |
Early Christian Ethics | |
Tools of the Trade (Instrumenta Studiorum) | |
Index | |
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