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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 — 20,149 ratings — published 1979
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.00 — 74,969 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 — 6,224 ratings — published 2002
On the Incarnation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.37 — 15,631 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 — 3,169 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 — 7,842 ratings — published 2014
The Historical Figure of Jesus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,055 ratings — published 1993
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.86 — 73,160 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 4.43 — 2,024 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 — 2,776 ratings — published 1991
Backgrounds of Early Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.12 — 585 ratings — published 1987
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,867 ratings — published 324
The Early Church (The Pelican History of the Church, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,903 ratings — published 1967
The Centurion's Wife (Acts of Faith, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.09 — 15,516 ratings — published 2009
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.12 — 6,717 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 — 2,198 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 — 3,045 ratings — published 1988
The Rise of Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,113 ratings — published 1996
On First Principles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.21 — 408 ratings — published 215
God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.84 — 318 ratings — published 2024
The Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.28 — 867 ratings — published 530
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 — 1,936 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 4.19 — 103 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 — 1,169 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 — 7,380 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 — 675 ratings — published 2012
Early Christian Doctrines (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,098 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 — 150 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 — 1,097 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 4.26 — 423 ratings — published 1988
Pagans and Christians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.85 — 510 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 — 20,591 ratings — published 2005
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,338 ratings — published 1968
Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.05 — 373 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 — 99 ratings — published
The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.97 — 677 ratings — published 2013
The Works of Josephus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,554 ratings — published 100
The Didache (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,293 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 — 119 ratings — published 2009
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,153 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 — 6,533 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 3.87 — 233 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 4.25 — 5,123 ratings — published 1978
Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.05 — 94 ratings — published 2014
Dear and Glorious Physician (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.35 — 8,419 ratings — published 1958
The Life Of St. Anthony (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,655 ratings — published 357
Early Christian Creeds (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.26 — 57 ratings — published 1972
From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.19 — 183 ratings — published 2013
“The ecclesiastical governors of the Christians were taught to unite the wisdom of the serpent with the innocence of the dove; but as the former was refined, so the latter was insensibly corrupted, by the habits of government. In the church as well as in the world, the persons who were placed in any public station rendered themselves considerable by their eloquence and firmness, by their knowledge of mankind, and by their dexterity in business; and while they concealed from others, and perhaps from themselves, the secret motives of their conduct, they too frequently relapsed into all the turbulent passions of active life, which were tinctured with an additional degree of bitterness and obstinacy from the infusion of spiritual zeal.”
― The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
― The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
“Two brethren made their way to the city to sell their handiwork: and when in the city they went different ways, divided one from the other, one of them fell into fornication. After a while came his brother, saying, "Brother, let us go back to our cell." But he made answer, "I am not coming." And the other questioned him, saying, "wherefore, brother?" And he answered, "Because when thou didst go from me, I ran into temptation, and I sinned in the flesh." But the other, anxious to help him, began to tell him, saying, "But so it happened with me: when I was separated from thee, I too ran into fornication. But let us go, and do penance together with all our might: and God will forgive us that are sinful men."
And they came back to the monastery and told the old men what had befallen them, and they enjoined on them the penance they must do. But the one began his penance, not for himself but for his brother, as if he himself had sinned. And God, seeing his love and his labour, after a few days revealed to one of the old men that for the great love of this brother who had not sinned, He had forgiven the brother who had. And verily this is to lay down one's soul for one's brother.”
― The Desert Fathers
And they came back to the monastery and told the old men what had befallen them, and they enjoined on them the penance they must do. But the one began his penance, not for himself but for his brother, as if he himself had sinned. And God, seeing his love and his labour, after a few days revealed to one of the old men that for the great love of this brother who had not sinned, He had forgiven the brother who had. And verily this is to lay down one's soul for one's brother.”
― The Desert Fathers
