LEADER 04100nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910452024403321 005 20210527221528.0 010 $a9786611740993 010 $a1-281-74099-3 010 $a0-300-12756-1 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300127560 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471813 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24393322 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000986369 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11623841 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000986369 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10933651 035 $a(PQKB)11330722 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000249836 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11208977 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249836 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10230838 035 $a(PQKB)11557707 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3419908 035 $a(WaSeSS)Ind00071588 035 $a(DE-B1597)485406 035 $a(OCoLC)952732415 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300127560 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3419908 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10169934 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL174099 035 $a(OCoLC)923588419 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471813 100 $a20020716d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe spirit of early Christian thought$b[electronic resource] $eseeking the face of God /$fRobert Louis Wilken 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (398 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-09708-5 311 0 $a0-300-10598-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1 Founded on the Cross of Christ --$tChapter 2 An Awesome and Unbloody Sacrifice --$tChapter 3 The Face of God for Now --$tChapter 4 Seek His Face Always --$tChapter 5 Not My Will But Thine --$tChapter 6 The End Given in the Beginning --$tChapter 7 The Reasonableness of Faith --$tChapter 8 Happy the People Whose God Is the Lord --$tChapter 9 The Glorious Deeds of Christ --$tChapter 10 Making This Thing Other --$tChapter 11 Likeness to God --$tChapter 12 The Knowledge of Sensuous Intelligence --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tSuggestions for Reading --$tGeneral Index --$tIndex of Biblical Citations 330 $aIn this eloquent introduction to early Christian thought, eminent religious historian Robert Louis Wilken examines the tradition that such figures as St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and others set in place. These early thinkers constructed a new intellectual and spiritual world, Wilken shows, and they can still be heard as living voices in the modern world. In chapters on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, Wilken shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture. 517 3 $aEarly Christian thought 606 $aChurch history$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600 606 $aTheology$xHistory$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChurch history 615 0$aTheology$xHistory 676 $a230/.11 700 $aWilken$b Robert Louis$f1936-$0153684 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452024403321 996 $aThe spirit of early Christian thought$92474828 997 $aUNINA