Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity

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Автор: Angelo Di Berardino (Editor)

Название: Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity

Издательство: IVP Academic

Год: 2014

Формат: PDF

Размер: 23.6 Mb

Язык: Английский

2014 Midwest Publishing Association Award of Excellence (Scholarly/Reference) 2014 Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention The Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity covers eight centuries of the Christian church and comprises 3,220 entries by a team of 266 scholars from 26 countries representing a variety of Christian traditions. It draws upon such fields as archaeology, art and architecture, biography, cultural studies, ecclesiology, geography, history, philosophy, and theology. This three-volume encyclopedia offers unparalleled, comprehensive coverage of the people, places and ideas of ancient Christianity, including:

- cultural currents

- events and movements

- philosophy

- iconography and architecture

- archaeology

- texts and translations

- theological terms

- doctrines

- liturgy

- spirituality

- monasticism

- Christian sects

- heresies

- controversies

- councils

The encyclopedia's A-to-Z coverage extends from "Aaron (iconography)" to "Zosimus, pope" and chronologically from Christianity's origins to Bede (d. 735) in the West and John of Damascus (d. ca. 749) in the Greek East, with detailed emphasis on the first four centuries of Christian history.