The Edinburgh Critical History of Apostolic and Patristic Christian Theology

The patristic era is the one in which the church grew from a Jewish sect to become the hegemonic religion of the Mediterranean world, and also the common religion of the Germanic peoples who founded the nations of modern Europe on the ruins of the Roman Empire. This critical history charts not only the development of the standard credal doctrines but the appropriation of classical philosophy, the development of the church’s sense of itself as a religious body distinct from Judaism, and the theological implications of its changing political position. The team of internationally leading scholars ask new and daring questions, breaking down the walls between theology and classics, and between patristics and biblical studies.