Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity
Angelo Di Berardino (Editor), Thomas C. Oden (Consultant Editor), Joel C. Elowsky (Consultant Editor), James Hoover (Consultant Editor)
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This 3-volume encyclopedia, produced by the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, comprises 3,220 entries by a team of 266 scholars from 26 countries, covering 8 centuries of the Christian church and addressing such topics as archaeology, art and architecture, biography, culture, doctrine, ecclesiology, geography, history, philosophy, and theology. The Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity includes:
- Unparalleled, comprehensive coverage of persons, places and ideas from ancient Christianity, including:
- cultural currents
- events and movements
- philosophy
- iconography and architecture
- archaeology
- texts and translations
- theological terms
- doctrines
- liturgy
- spirituality
- monasticism
- Christian sects
- heresies
- controversies
- councils
- A-Z coverage from "Aaron (iconography)" to "Zosimus, pope"
- 3,220 articles by 266 contributors from 26 countries (and representing a variety of Christian traditions
- Chronological coverage extending from Christian origins to Bede (d. 735) in the West and John of Damascus (d. ca. 749) in the Greek East
- Detailed emphasis on the first 4 centuries of Christian history
- Geographical coverage including
- North Africa
- Mauretania
- Numidia
- Africa Proconsularis Byzacena
- Libya
- Egypt
- Nubia
- Ethiopia
- Asia
- Adiabene
- Armenia
- Bithynia & Pontus
- Georgia
- Cappadocia
- Lycia and Pamphylia
- Phrygia
- Syria
- Mesopotamia
- Arabia
- Palestine
- Persia
- China
- Europe
- Gaul
- Spain & Portugal
- Italy
- Germany
- Britain and Ireland
- Scotland
- Pannonia
- Dalmatia
- Macedonia
- Moesia
- Thrace
- Cyprus
- Crete
- Updates and expands on previous Italian and English-language editions with the addition of more than 500 articles, including the following 30 articles exclusive to this new English-language edition:
- apostolic see
- Capua
- Carmen de synodo Ticinensi
- China
- cosmopolitanism
- death
- diakonia/diaconate
- Dialogi de sancta Trinitate IV-V
- doorkeeper (porter)
- dynamis/energeia
- eternity
- forgiveness
- freedom/free will
- good
- Hierotheus
- incubatio
- infinity/infinitude
- libelli miraculorum
- love
- Mara bar Serapion (letter of)
- oikeiosis
- old age
- presanctified
- Serapeion (Serapeum)
- subdeacon
- Theosebia
- Triumphus Christi heroicus
- Tychon
- unity
- Virgo Parens
- Extensive cross-referencing for ease in exploring related articles
- Helpful bibliographies, including primary sources (texts, critical editions, translations) and key secondary sources (books and journal articles)
- Translated from Nuovo dizionario patristico e di antichita cristiane (2006-us.html08), produced by the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, the world's foremost center for partristic studies, under the direction of Professor Angelo Di Berardino
- Updates and expands on Oxford/James Clarke Encyclopedia of the Early Church (1992)
- Rank: #724395 in Books
- Published on: 2014-03-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 3057 pages
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