Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity (3 Volume Set)

Publisher Description

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 (2006-2008), 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)

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity is packaged and sold primarily as a three-volume set. For exceptions, please telephone or email to InterVarsity Press.