Spydus Search Results - Subject: Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 (Keywords)

Damascus / Christos Tsiolkas.

Based around the gospels and letters of St Paul, and focusing on characters one and two generations on from the death of Christ, as well as Paul (Saul) himself, 'Damascus' nevertheless explores the themes that have always obsessed Tsiolkas as a writer: class, religion, masculinity, patriarchy, colonisation, refugees; the ways in which nations, societies, communities, families and individuals are united and divided - it's all here, the contemporary and urgent questions, perennial concerns made vivid and visceral.
Author: Tsiolkas, Christos, 1965-
Published: London : Atlantic Books, 2020.
432 pages ; 24 cm

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: hardback - Available - 95100000294646

Apostle, or, Bones that shine like fire : travels among the tombs of the twelve / Tom Bissell.

Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John - who were these men and what was their relationship to Jesus? Tom Bissell gives us rich and deeply informed answers to those ancient questions. 'Apostle' is a brilliant and exhaustive synthesis of travel writing, centuries of biblical history, and a deep lifelong relationship with Christianity. Bissell explores not just who these renowned and pious men were (and weren't), but how their identities have taken shape over two millennia.
Author: Bissell, Tom, 1974-
Published: London : Faber & Faber, 2016.
xxi, 407 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 225.922 BIS - Available - 153201026

And man created God : kings, cults, and conquests at the time of Jesus / Selina O'Grady.

This text takes the reader on a geographical and intellectual journey across the evolving empires and kingdoms of the ancient world. Through evocations of individual rulers and holy men, Selina O'Grady shows how emperors sought to shape religion to their ends, and how religion shaped emperors and their subjects.
Author: O'Grady, Selina
Published: London : Atlantic, 2012.
xxi, 393 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 270.1 OGR - Available - 151117161

Sea-road of the saints : Celtic holy men in the Hebrides / John Marsden.

Author: Marsden, John, 1946-
Published: Edinburgh : Floris, 1995.
213p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 274.1 - Adult non fiction - Available - 127083394

Christianizing the Roman Empire (A.D. 100-400) / Ramsay MacMullen.

Author: MacMullen, Ramsay, 1928-
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c1984.
viii, 183p. ; 24 cm.

Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 937.06 - Adult non fiction - Available - 116145455

Out of Egypt : the roots of Christianity revealed / Ahmed Osman.

Muslim scholar Ahmed Osman shows how the true, Egyptian roots of Christianity were deliberately covered up by the early Christian Church at the burning of the library at Alexandria, roots which are only now being uncovered again by archaeology.
Author: Osman, Ahmed
Published: London : Century, 1998.
xviii, 270p., [16]p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

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The rise of Western Christendom : triumph and diversity, A.D. 200-1000 / Peter Brown.

A history of the people, struggles, defeats and victories, ideas and actions that together comprise the history of the first 1000 years of Christianity. The book ranges across the whole of Asia Minor, North Africa and Europe. It describes, too, the rise of Islam and its effect on Christianity.
Author: Brown, Peter, 1935-
Published: Cambridge, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell, 1995 (1997 [printing])
xi,368p. : maps ; 23cm.
The making of Europe

Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 274 - Adult non fiction - Available - 113231015

Pagans and Christians

Author: Lane Fox, Robin, 1946-
Published: [Harmondsworth] : Viking, 1986.
799p : maps ; 24cm.

Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 291 - Adult non fiction - Available - 02245383X

Hellenism in late antiquity / G. W. Bowersock.

In seeking to interpret Hellenism in a predominantly Christian world, the author reveals the adaptability and durability of Greek culture in times of momentous change. He sheds new light on a late paganism that has often been seen as moribund and reveals it as unexpectedly vigorous.
Author: Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren), 1936-
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
xii,109p. : ill(some col.) ; 25cm.

Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 938.08 - Adult non fiction - Available - 95100000115578

Creeds, councils and controversies : documents illustrating the history of the Church AD337-461 / edited by J. Stevenson.

This companion volume to "A New Eusebius" and "Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church" documents the history of the Church from AD 337 to 461. This edition has been completely revised, updating the notes and bibliography and adding nearly 40 new documents.
Rev. ed.
Published: SPCK, 1989.
xxii,410p.

Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 270.2 - Adult non fiction - Onloan - Due: 11 May 2024 - 95100000088958

A tale of two missions

Author: Goulder, M. D. (Michael Douglas)
Published: London : SCM Press, c1994.
xii,196p.

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History and spirit : the understanding of scripture according to Origen / Henri de Lubac.

Author: Lubac, Henri de
Published: Ignatius Press, 2007.

Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 270.1 - Adult non fiction - Available - 061598066

A public faith : from Constantine to the medieval world, AD 312-600 / Ivor J. Davidson ; John D. Woodbridge and David F. Wright consulting editors.

As this volume opens, persecution of Christians is coming to an end with the triumph of Constantine. Soon legal measures protected church interests. The following centuries will see painful heart-searching as church and state grow closer, and the doctrinal wrangles of the early church continue.
Author: Davidson, Ivor J.
Published: Oxford : Monarch, 2005.
463 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
The Monarch history of the church ; v. 2

Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 270.2 - Adult non fiction - Available - 146473805

First Christians : Pentecost and the spread of Christianity / Paul L. Maier.

Author: Maier, Paul L.
Published: London : Mowbrays, 1976.
160p.,[4]p. of plates : ill(some col), 1map ; 22cm.

Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 270.1 - Adult non fiction - Available - 044967713

The early church / Henry Chadwick.

Author: Chadwick, Henry, 1920-2008
Revised edition.
Published: London : Penguin Books, 1993.
314 pages ; 20 cm.
Pelican history of the church ; 1.

Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 270.1 - Adult non fiction - Onloan - Due: 11 May 2024 - 147551579

Helena / Evelyn Waugh.

The life of the Empress Helena coincided with the recognition of Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire. Helena made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine, found pieces of wood from the true cross, and built churches at Bethlehem and Olivet.
Author: Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
Published: London : Penguin, 1963.
158 p. ; 20 cm.
Penguin twentieth-century classics

Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Fiction reserve - Adult fiction - Available - 043804256

The conversion of Europe : from paganism to Christianity, 371-1386 AD / Richard Fletcher.

This remarkable book examines the conversion of Europe to the Christain faith in the period following the collapse of the Roman Empire to approximately 1300 when the hegemony of the Holy Roman Empire was firmly established.
Author: Fletcher, R. A. (Richard A.)
Published: London : HarperCollins, 1997.
xiii, 562p., [16]p. of plates : ill., facsims., maps ; 24 cm.

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The Emperor Constantine / Michael Grant.

A biography of Constantine - famous for being the first Christian emperor of Rome - which aims to reach past the public persona to the private man. Was he the last notable Roman emperor, or the first medieval monarch? Was he a saint or should he be seen as a murderer who killed his wife and others?
Author: Grant, Michael, 1914-2004
Published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, c1993.
xii,267p.,[8]p. of plates : ill., 1geneal.table,maps,ports. ; 24cm.

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Roots of Christianity / Michael Walsh.

Author: Walsh, Michael J. (Michael John), 1937-
Published: London : Grafton, 1986.
[256]p. : ill(some col.) ; 24cm.

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