Birth of a Worldview

Early Christianity in its Jewish and Pagan Context

By (author) Robert Doran

Publication date:

12 May 1999

Length of book:

200 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

235x155mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780847693702

Birth of a Worldview is a groundbreaking intellectual history of the making of the worldview that came to define western Christian culture for two millennia. Using a broad range of primary sources, Robert Doran narrates the story of how early thinkers wrestled with philosophical and cultural questions in order to form a view that would make sense of their place in the world. This engaging book will be of interest to scholars, students, and general readers interested in religious studies, ancient history, and intellectual thought.
Through succinct discussion and frequent, extensive citations of primary sources, Doran brings alive the diverse ways Christian intellectuals from the first to the fifth centuries expressed their understanding of the cosmos and their place in it.