Medicine & health care in early Christianity / by Ferngren, Gary B.

Table of Contents: “…Methods and approaches -- The Christian reception of Greek medicine -- Early Christian views of the etiology of disease -- Christianity as a religion of healing -- The basis of Christian medical philanthropy -- Health care in the early church -- Some concluding observations.…”
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The path of Christianity : the first thousand years / by McGuckin, John Anthony

Table of Contents: “…The fertile second century -- Blood in the arena : the age of persecutions and resistance : second to third centuries -- Coming of age : Christianity in the third century -- The gospel on the throne : Christians in the fourth-century East -- Reconciling the world : Christian ascetical and penitential imperatives -- Remaking society : the church in the west in the fourth to sixth centuries -- A church of the nations : ancient global Christianity -- The rise of the ecumenical conciliar system in the fifth to sixth centuries -- The emergence of Christians Byzantium in the sixth to ninth centuries -- The flourishing of medieval Rome in the seventh to tenth centuries -- The formation of Christian liturgy -- The great parting of ways : Greek East and Latin West in the tenth to eleventh centuries -- The Bible and its interpretation in the early church -- The church and war -- The development of Christian hymnography -- Ways of prayer in the early church -- Women in ancient Christianity -- Healing and philanthropy in early Christianity -- The exercise of authority in the church : orders and offices -- Christians and magic -- The church and wealth -- Church and slavery in an age of oppression -- Attitudes to sexuality in the early church -- A brief account of ancient Christian art.…”
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Through the eye of a needle wealth, the fall of Rome, and the making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD / by Brown, Peter, 1935-

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Through the eye of a needle : wealth, the fall of Rome, and the making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD / by Brown, Peter, 1935-

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