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Early Christianity Books
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The Gnostic Gospels (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.94 — 19,916 ratings — published 1979
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.00 — 73,884 ratings — published 400
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,195 ratings — published 2002
On the Incarnation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.36 — 15,315 ratings — published 318
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World (Audio CD)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,122 ratings — published 2018
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,722 ratings — published 2014
The Historical Figure of Jesus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,045 ratings — published 1993
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.86 — 72,844 ratings — published 2013
Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,018 ratings — published 1992
The New Testament and the People of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,767 ratings — published 1991
Backgrounds of Early Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.11 — 580 ratings — published 1987
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,816 ratings — published 324
The Early Church (The Pelican History of the Church, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,885 ratings — published 1967
The Centurion's Wife (Acts of Faith, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.09 — 15,442 ratings — published 2009
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.12 — 6,666 ratings — published 2009
The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.53 — 2,187 ratings — published 2003
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,030 ratings — published 1988
The Rise of Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,088 ratings — published 1996
On First Principles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.21 — 401 ratings — published 215
God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.87 — 298 ratings — published 2024
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,899 ratings — published 2016
The Gospel of the Lord: How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.20 — 102 ratings — published 2014
Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,161 ratings — published 2010
How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God?: Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.04 — 146 ratings — published 2005
The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,347 ratings — published 1995
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.29 — 671 ratings — published 2012
Early Christian Doctrines (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,093 ratings — published 1958
Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (Perfect Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.48 — 149 ratings — published 2003
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,087 ratings — published 2003
The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.27 — 421 ratings — published 1988
Pagans and Christians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.86 — 508 ratings — published 1986
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,405 ratings — published 2005
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,321 ratings — published 1968
Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.15 — 291 ratings — published
The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.21 — 97 ratings — published
The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.96 — 671 ratings — published 2013
The Works of Josephus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,541 ratings — published 100
The Didache (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,211 ratings — published 70
World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.35 — 116 ratings — published 2009
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.27 — 11,633 ratings — published 2019
Against the Heresies: Book 1 (Ancient Christian Writers)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.05 — 189 ratings — published 188
Paul: A Biography (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,394 ratings — published 2018
Paul's Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in Their Cultural Setting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.88 — 232 ratings — published 1980
The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation (Story of Christianity)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,064 ratings — published 1978
The Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.27 — 855 ratings — published 530
Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.05 — 93 ratings — published 2014
Dear and Glorious Physician (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.34 — 8,318 ratings — published 1958
The Life Of St. Anthony (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,605 ratings — published 357
Early Christian Creeds (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.25 — 55 ratings — published 1972
From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity (Revealing Antiquity)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.19 — 178 ratings — published 2013
“The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.”
― Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays
― Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays
“Contradicting believers who warn of God’s wrath and judgment, the Gospel of Truth declares that those who really know him “do not think of him as small, or harsh, or wrathful,” as others suggest, but as a loving and gracious Father (Gospel of Truth 42:4–9). Poetic, sometimes lyrical, this gospel declares that God sent his son not only to save us from sins committed in error but to restore all beings to the divine source whence they came, “so that they may return to the Father and to the Mother, Jesus of the utmost sweetness” (Gospel of Truth 24:6–9). Thus to all who wander this world in terror, anguish, and confusion, Jesus reveals a divine secret: that they are deeply connected with God the Father, and with the divine Mother, the Holy Spirit.”
― Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
― Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
