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The Cambridge history of early Christian literature / edited by Frances Young, Lewis Ayres, Andrew Louth.

Contributor(s): Young, Frances M. (Frances Margaret) | Ayres, Lewis | Louth, Andrew
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: xxv, 538 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521460832; 9780521460835Other title: Early Christian literatureSubject(s): Christian literature, Early -- History and criticismDDC classification: 270.1 LOC classification: BR67 | .C25 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the literary culture of the earliest Christianity / Frances Young -- The apostolic and sub-apostolic writings: the new testament and the apostolic fathers / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Gnostic literature / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Apocryphal writings and acts of the martyrs / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- The apologists / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Irenaeus of Lyon / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Social and historical setting / John Behr -- Articulating identity / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Christian teaching / Frances Young -- Conclusion: towards a hermeneutic of second-century texts / Frances Young -- The Alexandrians / Ronald E. Heine -- The beginnings of Latin Christian literature / Ronald E. Heine -- Hippolytus, Ps.-Hippolytus and the early canons / Ronald E. Heine -- Cyprian and Novatian / Ronald E. Heine -- The earliest Syriac literature / Sebastian P. Brock -- Concluding review: the literary culture of the third century / Frances Young -- Social and historical setting: Christianity as culture critique / Karen Jo Torjesen -- Articulating identity / Ronald E. Heine -- Christian teaching / John David Dawson -- The significance of third-century Christian literature / Frances Young -- Classical genres in Christian guise; Christian genres in classical guise / Frances Young -- Arnobius and Lactantius / Oliver Nicholson -- Eusebius and the birth of church history / Andrew Louth -- The fourth-century Alexandrians: Athanasius and Didymus / Andrew Louth -- Palestine: Cyril of Jerusalem and Epiphanius / Andrew Louth -- The Cappadocians / Andrew Louth -- Fourth-century Latin writers: Hilary, Victorinus, Ambrosiaster, Ambrose / David G. Hunter -- Jerome and Rufinus / Mark Vessey -- Augustine / Henry Chadwick -- John Chrysostom and the Antiochene school to Theodoret of Cyrrhus / Andrew Louth -- Cyril of Alexandria / Andrew Louth -- Hagiography / Andrew Louth -- Ephrem and the Syriac tradition / Sebastian P. Brock -- The literature of the monastic movement / Andrew Louth -- Women and words: texts by and about women / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- Conciliar records and canons / Andrew Louth -- Social and historical setting / R. A. Markus -- Articulating identity / Lewis Ayres -- Christian teaching / Frances Young -- Retrospect: interpretation and appropriation / Frances Young.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the literary culture of the earliest Christianity / Frances Young -- The apostolic and sub-apostolic writings: the new testament and the apostolic fathers / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Gnostic literature / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Apocryphal writings and acts of the martyrs / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- The apologists / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Irenaeus of Lyon / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Social and historical setting / John Behr -- Articulating identity / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Christian teaching / Frances Young -- Conclusion: towards a hermeneutic of second-century texts / Frances Young -- The Alexandrians / Ronald E. Heine -- The beginnings of Latin Christian literature / Ronald E. Heine -- Hippolytus, Ps.-Hippolytus and the early canons / Ronald E. Heine -- Cyprian and Novatian / Ronald E. Heine -- The earliest Syriac literature / Sebastian P. Brock -- Concluding review: the literary culture of the third century / Frances Young -- Social and historical setting: Christianity as culture critique / Karen Jo Torjesen -- Articulating identity / Ronald E. Heine -- Christian teaching / John David Dawson -- The significance of third-century Christian literature / Frances Young -- Classical genres in Christian guise; Christian genres in classical guise / Frances Young -- Arnobius and Lactantius / Oliver Nicholson -- Eusebius and the birth of church history / Andrew Louth -- The fourth-century Alexandrians: Athanasius and Didymus / Andrew Louth -- Palestine: Cyril of Jerusalem and Epiphanius / Andrew Louth -- The Cappadocians / Andrew Louth -- Fourth-century Latin writers: Hilary, Victorinus, Ambrosiaster, Ambrose / David G. Hunter -- Jerome and Rufinus / Mark Vessey -- Augustine / Henry Chadwick -- John Chrysostom and the Antiochene school to Theodoret of Cyrrhus / Andrew Louth -- Cyril of Alexandria / Andrew Louth -- Hagiography / Andrew Louth -- Ephrem and the Syriac tradition / Sebastian P. Brock -- The literature of the monastic movement / Andrew Louth -- Women and words: texts by and about women / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- Conciliar records and canons / Andrew Louth -- Social and historical setting / R. A. Markus -- Articulating identity / Lewis Ayres -- Christian teaching / Frances Young -- Retrospect: interpretation and appropriation / Frances Young.

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