Titre :	The first thousand years : a global history of Christianity
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Robert L. (Robert Louis) Wilken (1936-), Auteur
Editeur :	New Haven : Yale University Press
Année de publication :	©2012
Importance :	x, 388 p.
Présentation :	illustrations (some color)
Format :	24 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-300-11884-1
Langues :	Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	Church history -- Primitive and early church. Church history--Middle Ages
Index. décimale :	BR 162.3
Résumé :	This work is a narrative account of the history of Christianity from its beginning to the end of the first millennium. The principal theme is the slow drama of the building of a Christian civilization. A major theme is the mission of Christians among different peoples in many regions of the ancient world: Ethiopia, Nubia, Armenia, Georgia, Persia, central Asia, India, China as well as among the Germanic peoples of
Note de contenu :	Introduction -- Beginning in Jerusalem -- Ephesus, Rome, and Edessa: the spread of Christianity -- The making of a Christian community -- Divisions within -- Constructing a catacomb -- A learned faith: Origen of Alexandria -- Persecution: Cyprian of Carthage -- A Christian emperor: Constantine -- The Council of Nicaea and the Christian creed -- Monasticism -- A Christian Jerusalem -- Emperor Julian, the Jews, and Christians -- Bishop and Emperor: Ambrose and Theodosius -- Architecture and art -- Music and worship -- The sick, the aged, and the poor : the birth of hospitals -- The Bishop of Rome as pope -- An ordered Christian society: canon law -- Augustine of Hippo -- The great controversy over Christ -- Egypt and the Copts: Nubia -- African Zion: Ethiopia -- Syriac-speaking Christians: the Church of the East -- Armenia and Georgia -- Central Asia, China, and India -- A Christian empire: Justinian -- New beginnings in the West -- Latin Christianity spreads north -- The sacking of Jerusalem: more controversy over Christ -- No God but God: the rise of Islam -- Images and the making of Byzantium -- Arabic-speaking Christians -- Christians under Islam: Egypt and North Africa -- Christians under Islam: Spain -- An emperor in the West: Charlemagne -- Christianity among the Slavs -- Afterword -- Chronology and maps -- Suggested readings -- Translations.

The first thousand years : a global history of Christianity [texte imprimé] / Robert L. (Robert Louis) Wilken (1936-), Auteur . - New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012 . - x, 388 p. : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-300-11884-1
Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	Church history -- Primitive and early church. Church history--Middle Ages
Index. décimale :	BR 162.3
Résumé :	This work is a narrative account of the history of Christianity from its beginning to the end of the first millennium. The principal theme is the slow drama of the building of a Christian civilization. A major theme is the mission of Christians among different peoples in many regions of the ancient world: Ethiopia, Nubia, Armenia, Georgia, Persia, central Asia, India, China as well as among the Germanic peoples of
Note de contenu :	Introduction -- Beginning in Jerusalem -- Ephesus, Rome, and Edessa: the spread of Christianity -- The making of a Christian community -- Divisions within -- Constructing a catacomb -- A learned faith: Origen of Alexandria -- Persecution: Cyprian of Carthage -- A Christian emperor: Constantine -- The Council of Nicaea and the Christian creed -- Monasticism -- A Christian Jerusalem -- Emperor Julian, the Jews, and Christians -- Bishop and Emperor: Ambrose and Theodosius -- Architecture and art -- Music and worship -- The sick, the aged, and the poor : the birth of hospitals -- The Bishop of Rome as pope -- An ordered Christian society: canon law -- Augustine of Hippo -- The great controversy over Christ -- Egypt and the Copts: Nubia -- African Zion: Ethiopia -- Syriac-speaking Christians: the Church of the East -- Armenia and Georgia -- Central Asia, China, and India -- A Christian empire: Justinian -- New beginnings in the West -- Latin Christianity spreads north -- The sacking of Jerusalem: more controversy over Christ -- No God but God: the rise of Islam -- Images and the making of Byzantium -- Arabic-speaking Christians -- Christians under Islam: Egypt and North Africa -- Christians under Islam: Spain -- An emperor in the West: Charlemagne -- Christianity among the Slavs -- Afterword -- Chronology and maps -- Suggested readings -- Translations.