Disc 1. Introduction: the church and Judaism -- The early church and the Torah -- Finding Christian meaning in the Old Testament : The case of Justin Martyr -- Disc 2. Christian and Jewish identities in the second century: who is the heir to God's covenant? -- Gnosticism, Ptolemy, and the Old Testament -- Gnostic cosmology -- Disc 3. Gnostic views of Christ and Christianity -- Reactions to gnosticism: the New Testament canon -- Reactions to Gnosticism: Ignatius and the Episcopal structure -- Disc 4. Reactions to gnosticism: Irenaeus, apostolic succession, and the rule of faith -- Reactions to gnosticism: Tertullian, Irenaeus, and the stereotype of heresy -- The spread of Christianity in the Empire -- Disc 5. Apologies for the faith -- Persecution and martyrdom -- The conversion of Constantine -- Disc 6. Surveying the evidence about women in early Christianity -- Paul's perspective on women in the church -- The Pauline legacy in the pastoral epistles and the acts of Thecla -- Disc 7. A positive or negative tale for early Christian women? -- Early Christian views of Jesus -- Logos Christology -- Disc 8. Arius and Arianism -- The Council of Nicea -- Alexander and Athanasius -- Disc 9. After Nicea -- The Trinity and the Council of Constantinople -- The Logos-Sarx Christology of Alexandria -- Disc 10. The Logos-Anthropos Christology of Antioch -- Nestorius of Constantinople and Cyril of Alexandria -- The Council of Chalcedon.
Series:
Now You Know Media series
OCLC:
(OCoLC)808819697
Locations:
N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)
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