THEORY PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN RELIGION

THEORY PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN RELIGION by Gerd Theissen (Professor of New Testament, University of Heidelberg, Germany) was published by SCM in February 2003 and is our 45118th best seller. The ISBN for THEORY PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN RELIGION is 9780334029137.

A discussion of 'primitive' Christianity - Christianity in its original form, this work was first given as Speaker's Lectures in Oxford. Covering the first five centuries of Christianity, it argues that neither a theology of the New Testament nor a history of the early Church can do justice to all the dimensions of the earliest Christianity. It explores in depth the formation of primitive Christianity and studies the effect of the two great crises of primitive Christianity: the split with Judaism and the threat from Gnosticism.;It is aimed at academic theologians.