The spirit of early Christian thought [[electronic resource] ] : seeking the face of God / / Robert Louis Wilken

• Autore: Wilken Robert Louis <1936->
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (398 p.)
• Disciplina: 230/.11
• Soggetto topico: Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Theology - History - Early church, ca. 30-600
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Founded on the Cross of Christ -- Chapter 2 An Awesome and Unbloody Sacrifice -- Chapter 3 The Face of God for Now -- Chapter 4 Seek His Face Always -- Chapter 5 Not My Will But Thine -- Chapter 6 The End Given in the Beginning -- Chapter 7 The Reasonableness of Faith -- Chapter 8 Happy the People Whose God Is the Lord -- Chapter 9 The Glorious Deeds of Christ -- Chapter 10 Making This Thing Other -- Chapter 11 Likeness to God -- Chapter 12 The Knowledge of Sensuous Intelligence -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Suggestions for Reading -- General Index -- Index of Biblical Citations
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Early Christian thought
• Titolo autorizzato: The spirit of early Christian thought
• ISBN: 9786611740993; 1-281-74099-3; 0-300-12756-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777854403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II