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  • The Gospel according to Heretics

    Discovering Orthodoxy through Early Christological Conflicts

    by David Wilhite ...
    Since what Christian doctrine denies can be as important as what it affirms, it is important to understand teachings about Jesus that the early church rejected. Historians now acknowledge that proponents of alternative teachings were not so much malicious malcontents as they were misguided or even misunderstood. Here a recognized expert in early Christian theology teaches orthodox Christology by ... Read more

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  • Why Study the Early Church?

    A Brief Introduction to Ancient Theologians

    by David Wilhite ...
    Can reading early theologians such as Saint Augustine, alongside Scripture, inspire our faith?For Christians formed by a commitment to Scripture alone, studying early Christianity and the writings of the saints may feel unnecessary--or perhaps even dangerously close to abandoning the ideals of the Protestant Reformation. Yet these ancient theologians have long served as vital guides for ... Read more

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  • Israel’s Lord

    YHWH as “Two Powers” in Second Temple Literature

    Israel's Lord: YHWH as “Two Powers” in Second Temple Literature addresses the nature of Jewish monotheism in Second Temple literature, advancing an argument that much of the literature reflects the existence of two powers in heaven that are both rightly understood as YHWH. To this end, Wilhite and Winn review various figures such God's Word, God's Wisdom, the Angel of the Lord, the Son of Man, and ... Read more

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  • Ancient African Christianity

    An Introduction to a Unique Context and Tradition

    Christianity spread across North Africa early, and it remained there as a powerful force much longer than anticipated. While this African form of Christianity largely shared the Latin language and Roman culture of the wider empire, it also represented a unique tradition that was shaped by its context. Ancient African Christianity attempts to tell the story of Christianity in Africa from its ... Read more

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  • The True Church

    Retrieving a North African Sermon on the Songs of Songs

    In this mini-monograph, David Wilhite offers a sustained analysis of the Donatist bishop of Carthage Parmenian's sermon on the Song of Songs as it survives in Optatus of Milevis' reading of it. The sermon itself invoked imagery from the Song of Songs to attribute theological meaning to the material objects. Both Parmenian and Optatus agree on this so-called allegorical interpretation of the Old ... Read more

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  • The True Church

    Retrieving a North African Sermon on the Songs of Songs

    In this mini-monograph, David Wilhite offers a sustained analysis of the Donatist bishop of Carthage Parmenian's sermon on the Song of Songs as it survives in Optatus of Milevis' reading of it. The sermon itself invoked imagery from the Song of Songs to attribute theological meaning to the material objects. Both Parmenian and Optatus agree on this so-called allegorical interpretation of the Old ... Read more

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  • The Apologists and Paul

    Series series Pauline and Patristic Scholars in Debate
    This volume examines the use of Paul's writing within the work of ante-Nicene apologetic writers. It takes apologetics as a broad genre in which many early Christian writers participated, offering rhetorical defenses for emerging aspects of doctrine, rooted in understanding of the scriptures, and often specifically the writings of Paul.The volume interacts with the writings of many significant ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity

    The first three hundred years of the common era witnessed critical developments that would become foundational for Christianity itself, as well as for the societies and later history that emerged thereafter. The concept of 'ancient Christianity,' however, along with the content that the category represents, has raised much debate. This is, in part, because within this category lie multiple forms ... Read more

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  • Irenaeus and Paul

    Series series Pauline and Patristic Scholars in Debate
    Building on the work of Tertullian and Paul and The Apostolic Fathers and Paul, this volume continues a series of specially commissioned studies by leading voices in New Testament/early Christianity and patristics studies to consider how Paul was read, interpreted and received by the early Church Fathers.In this volume the use of Paul's writings is examined within the writings of Irenaeus of Lyon. ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

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  • Heresy

    A History of Defending the Truth

    A study of the history of heresy and rival forms of Christianity, arguing that the church must continue to defend what is true about Jesus.Our ongoing fascination with alternative Christianities is on display every time a never-before-seen gospel text is revealed, an archaeological discovery about Jesus makes front-page news, or anew work of fiction challenges the very foundations of the church. ... Read more

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  • The Patient Ferment of the Early Church

    The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire

    by Alan Kreider ...
    How and why did the early church grow in the first four hundred years despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional persecution? In this unique historical study, veteran scholar Alan Kreider delivers the fruit of a lifetime of study as he tells the amazing story of the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Challenging traditional understandings, Kreider contends the church grew because ... Read more

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