Description
Heikki Risnen offers a historical survey of the "roots and first growth" of the thoughts, values, and practices of the early Christians and explains the evolution of Christian belief in terms of vital adaptations to specific challenges. An ideal textbook for university introductory courses on the New Testament and Early Christianity, The Rise of Christian Beliefs offers chapters discussing "paradigmatic events" -the life and death of Jesus and experiences of Easter, principal figures and groups, last things and afterlife, savior figures and the human condition, ethnicity, identity, and morality, and ritual community life.
Author: Heikki Raisanen
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 07/30/2009
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.56w x 0.93d
ISBN13: 9780800662660
ISBN10: 0800662660
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | History
- Religion | Christianity | History