Encyclopedia of the Early Church by Angelo Di Berardino (Editor); Adrian Walford (Translator); W. H. C. Frend (Foreword by)Call Number: BR66.5 .D5813 1991
ISBN: 9780195208924
Publication Date: 1992-02-20
Tracing the growth of the church from its tiny beginnings in an upper room to its dominance of Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa in the eighth century, scholars from many disciplines produced articles ranging from a few sentences to ten thousand words on all the major and most of the minor people, works, ideas, and issues of the formative period of Christianity. The first major encyclopedia to cover the life, thought, and growth of Christianity, this work offers full treatment of doctrines, creeds, and heresies, of iconography and art history, of archaeology and geography, and of monasticism and asceticism.