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The Gnostic Gospels (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,904 ratings — published 1979
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.02 — 80,372 ratings — published 400
On the Incarnation (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.38 — 17,003 ratings — published 318
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,325 ratings — published 2002
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,014 ratings — published 324
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World (Audio CD)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,329 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 4.11 — 8,284 ratings — published 2014
The Historical Figure of Jesus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,110 ratings — published 1993
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.86 — 74,317 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 — 2,047 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 4.39 — 2,823 ratings — published 1991
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,081 ratings — published 1988
Backgrounds of Early Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.12 — 595 ratings — published 1987
On First Principles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.20 — 446 ratings — published 215
The Early Church (The Pelican History of the Church, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,946 ratings — published 1967
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,051 ratings — published 2016
The Centurion's Wife (Acts of Faith, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,854 ratings — published 2009
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.12 — 6,947 ratings — published 2009
The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,511 ratings — published 1995
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 — 2,290 ratings — published 2003
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,138 ratings — published 2003
Pagans and Christians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.85 — 526 ratings — published 1986
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,710 ratings — published 2003
The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,010 ratings — published
The Rise of Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,176 ratings — published 1996
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,384 ratings — published 1968
Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.01 — 593 ratings — published
God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.80 — 374 ratings — published 2024
The Works of Josephus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,588 ratings — published 100
The Didache (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,539 ratings — published 70
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.26 — 13,998 ratings — published 2019
The Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.29 — 895 ratings — published 530
Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.07 — 98 ratings — published 2014
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 — 104 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 — 1,237 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 — 150 ratings — published 2005
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 — 702 ratings — published 2012
Early Christian Doctrines (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,108 ratings — published 1958
Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (Perfect Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.47 — 152 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 4.25 — 441 ratings — published
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,230 ratings — published 2005
Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.32 — 108 ratings — published 2008
City of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,324 ratings — published 426
On the Divine Images: 3 Apologies Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.26 — 661 ratings — published 1980
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 4.26 — 109 ratings — published
The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 3.98 — 708 ratings — published 2013
Forgery and Counter-forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.23 — 206 ratings — published 2012
World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.37 — 123 ratings — published 2009
Against the Heresies: Book 1 (Ancient Christian Writers)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.05 — 198 ratings — published 188
Paul: The Pagans' Apostle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as early-christianity)
avg rating 4.00 — 261 ratings — published
“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?”
― Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
― Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
“[T]he new interest in asceticism came at a time when many Christians were reassessing their relationship to the institutional Church. Whether by becoming an ascetic or by showing support for the ascetic movement, ordinary Christians could take a stand against the greed and corruption that threatened to erode the values of the Church in its new, privileged, circumstances.”
― Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
― Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
