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Old 10-08-2009, 12:18 PM   #1
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Default Freeman A new history of early christianity

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/r...=9780300125818

Saw this in a shop window today. Anyone seen it yet?

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A History of Early Christianity is a masterful book, and a pleasure to read. Freeman narrates the development, diversity, and spread of Christianity with originality and verve. It is a story that brims over with fascinating accounts, intriguing quotations from figures in the ancient Mediterranean, and illuminating historical analysis. It is also a crucial resource for our understanding of ongoing cultural negotiations of religious and political spheres, all those theologico-political paradoxes that face us now more than ever. I do not think there exists a more engaging and illuminating history of early Christianity than this one." - Ward Blanton, University of Glasgow

"Even those who are adherents to Christianity may be puzzled by the tensions which exist in its primary sources, and this meticulous attempt to probe its origins and development is to be welcomed. Charles Freeman embraces the different kinds of approaches and positions which are found in the ancient texts, Christian and otherwise, painting a vivid picture of the nature of Christianity in all its diversity in the earliest centuries of its existence." - Christopher Rowland, author of Christian Origins
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A New History of Early Christianity (or via: amazon.co.uk)

Freeman is a well known scholar of ancient Greece and Rome, and is also the author of The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason (or via: amazon.co.uk), which argues that Christianity replaced classical philosophy and rationality with faith. The one reviewer of the New History gives it good marks for fairness.
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