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Early Christianity Books

The Gnostic Gospels (National Book Award Winner)
Confessions
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
On the Incarnation
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
The Historical Figure of Jesus
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #2)
The New Testament and the People of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #1)
Backgrounds of Early Christianity
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
The Early Church (The Pelican History of the Church, #1)
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
The Centurion's Wife (Acts of Faith, #1)
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard MilesBarbarians to Angels by Peter S. WellsBury Me Standing by Isabel FonsecaThe Thirty Years War by C.V. WedgwoodHer Father’s Daughter by Lucy K. Pick
The History of Spain: Land on a Crossroad Suggested Reading
105 books — 3 voters
History of the Ancient World by Gregory S. AldreteA Short History of Byzantium by John Julius NorwichSocieties, Networks, and Transitions by Craig A. LockardThe Mycenaean World by John ChadwickMinoans by J. Lesley Fitton
History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective Suggested Reading
143 books — 13 voters

Quotes Tagged “Early Christianity”

Elaine Pagels
“ The author of the Gospel of Judas implies that everyone has the power to surpass the angelic powers, because, as Jesus teaches Judas, it is only people themselves who keep the spirit confined within the flesh (Judas 13:14–15). By seeking the spirit within themselves, they can overcome the rulers of chaos and oblivion, see God, and enter the heavenly house of God above. And they can do this even as they live in this world. Just as both Jesus and Judas enter the luminous cloud while living on eart ...more ”
― Elaine Pagels, Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
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Kate Cooper
“ Even if three centuries of outsider status and intermittent persecution had tested the endurance of individuals and communities, coping with the patronage of a newly Christian emperor posed a challenge. The challenge was all the more threatening for its moral complexity. Was it right for the churches to accept the Emperor's favour, knowing full well that if they did so, they also tacitly accepted his right, so evident in all other aspects of life in the Roman Empire, to call the shots? ...more ”
― Kate Cooper, Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
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