… and establishing the very theological ideas that … institutional life—the Christianinstitutions of (higher) learning, prophecy, and worship—and their respective contributions to Christianity's …
… he shows how this specific social institution provided an essential context for the expression and development of earlyChristiantheology. Thus, Christiantheology developed not only in …
… of interpreting the role played by Christianity in the Romanempire. … social and institutional dimensions than on its modes of … Jews heard about Christianteaching as well as Christian com…
… issue of “prolegomena” has become significant. An example of a modern work of systematic … religion within the RomanEmpire and opened the way to numerical growth and institutional …
… Thus when Father Murray and his colleagues at Woodstock College invited me to … theological and scholarly issue, narrowing it down by a series of concentric circles first to the historical …
… on students at university and college level in Australasia, Canada, … By the end of the first century ad, Christianity had become … of Rome, the capital of the RomanEmpire. As the church at …
… Christianreligion during the first three centuries of our era”(1908, vii). Before Harnack’s work, … The success of Christianity is the success of an institution which united the sacramentalism …
… that created the plurality of Christiantheologies in the first centuries, and he … institutions is therefore the key to discerning the identity of Christiantheology amidst the variety of itsearliest …
… They range from familiar figures such as Jesus Christ and … early interest in ancientreligion and in Lucian’s reaction to it; … schools from the second century ad onwards.21 Most major …