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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Louis Wilken |
ISBN: | 9780300105988 0300105983 0300097085 9780300097085 |
OCLC Number: | 50234982 |
Description: | xxii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Founded on the cross of Christ -- An awesome and unbloody sacrifice -- The face of God for now -- Seek his face always -- Not my will but thine -- The end given in the beginning -- The reasonableness of faith -- Happy the people whose God is Lord -- The glorious deeds of Christ -- Making this thing other -- Likeness to God -- The knowledge of sensuous intelligence. |
Responsibility: | Robert Louis Wilken. |
Abstract:
Written by a religious historian, this is an introduction to early Christian thought. Focusing on major figures such as St Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well-known thinkers, Robert Wilken chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition.
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"An elegant and learned introduction to the giants of Christian antiquity, this book shows brilliantly how the Church can live by continually pondering the Word of God." Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Fordham University "By turns scholarly, contemplative, and argumentative, this is an exposition in which the early Christian writers speak for themselves - and to us." Jaroslav Pelikan, author of The Christian Tradition Read more...
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