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Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Reprint trade hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
593 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Originally published in Polish in 1896 by Nobel Prize-winning author Henryk Sienkiewicz, "Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero" is the story of a love that develops in Rome between a young Christian woman, Lygia, and Marcus Vinicius, a Roman patrician, during the reign of Nero in 64 AD. The title "Quo Vadis" is translated from Latin as "Where are you going?" The quote is a reference to the New Testament verse John 13:36, which states "Simon...
2) Quo vadis?
Author
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Quo Vadis is a powerful historical novel about the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Through a romance between a high-born Roman pagan and a Christian woman, Henryk Sienkiewicz masterfully brings to life the decadence of imperial Rome during the reign of Nero Claudius Caesar (AD 54-68), the bloodthirsty persecutor of the early Christians.
Quo Vadis has...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xii, 137 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Early Christianity in the context of Roman society raises important questions for historians, sociologists of religion and theologians alike. This work explores the differing perspectives arising from a changing social and academic culture. Key issues concerning early Christianity are addressed, such as how early Christian accounts of pagans, Jews and heretics can be challenged and the degree to which Christian groups offered support to their members...
Author
Series
Mark of the lion volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Voice in the Wind transports readers back to Jerusalem during the first Jewish-Roman War. Following the prides and passions of a group of Jews, Romans and Barbarians, the story centers on an ill-fated romance between a steadfast slave girl, Hadassah, and Marcus, the brother of her owner. Is it possible for their love to flourish considering not only their different stations in life, but also Hadassah's unrelenting faith and Marcus's lack of belief?...
Author
Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, storytelling, and social memory, on the premise that the practice of communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE. Brian J. Wright overturns the premise that communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE by examining evidence for its practice...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 487 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign-a miraculous, brutal, and irrational time of superstition and strange relics. The pursuit of heretics, the Inquisition, the Crusades and the domination of the "Holy Land" come to mind. Yet the medieval world produced much that is part of our world today, including universities, the passion for Roman architecture and the emergence of the gothic style, pilgrimage, the emergence of capitalism, and...
Author
Series
Fathers of the church volume 133
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 509 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A new translation, with scholarly commentary and notes, of Rufinus's modified translation and updating of Eusebius's Historia ecclesiastica. The history covers the period from the first century A.D. to the death of Emperor Theodosius in 395 A.D."--
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and intellectually? Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of Christianity over the first thousand years of its history. Moving through the formation of early institutions, practices, and beliefs to the transformations of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st HarperCollins pbk ed.
Physical Desc
280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
How did the preaching of a peasant carpenter from Galilee spark a movement that would grow to include over two billion followers? Who listened to this "good news," and who ignored it? Where did Christianity spread, and how? Based on quantitative data and the latest scholarship, preeminent scholar and journalist Rodney Stark presents new and startling information about the rise of the early church, overturning many prevailing views of how Christianity...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this final installment of the trilogy, the Germanic warrior Atretes vows to move heaven and earth to find his son -- the baby he thought was dead --and take him back to Germania. Only one thing stands in his way: Rizpah, a Christian widow who has cared for the child since his birth. Atretes hadn't counted on Rizpah's fiery resistance to "her son" being taken away, nor is he prepared for the woman's strength and beauty. The two are caught in a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
First-century Rome is a perilous city as Nero stalks the political circles and huddled groups of believers. To be safe, Christians must remain invisible.Gallus Sergius Vitas is the only man within Nero's trusted circle willing to do what it takes to keep the empire together. He struggles to lessen Nero's monstrosities against the people of Rome-especially the Christians. But as three Greek letters are scrawled as graffiti throughout the city, Nero's...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
A year has passed and Hadassah has donned veils to conceal her identity and the scars that now mark her body. Believed dead, she works helping a doctor in the poor section of the city and becomes skilled at healing through faith. When Julia falls ill, Hadassah faces a difficult decision: should she return to the Valerian household, risking exposure and death? The flame between Hadassah and Marcus is rekindled, though Marcus continues to search for...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
xiv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Rodney Stark (1934–2022) was Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University, where he was former codirector of the Institute for Studies of Religion. His many books include The Churching of America, 1776-1990 (with Roger Finke) and A Theory of Religion (with William Sims Bainbridge).
A landmark reinterpretation of why Christianity became the dominant faith of the West
The idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement...
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiv, 270 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This accessible text by James P. Ware provides both a concise guide to Paul's theology and a general introduction to the key issues and debates in the contemporary study of Paul. Examining Paul's message in the context of the ancient world, Ware identifies what would have struck Paul's original audience as startling or unique. By comparing Paul's teaching to the other religions and philosophies of that day, Ware presents a fresh perspective on Paul's...
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 310 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Though Paul is often lauded as the first great Christian theologian and a champion for Gentile inclusion in the church, in his own time he was universally regarded as a strange and controversial person. In this book Pauline scholar Michael Bird explains why. An Anomalous Jew presents the figure of Paul in all his complexity with his blend of common and controversial Jewish beliefs and a faith in Christ that brought him into conflict with the socio-religious...