Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: Founded by Mani (c. AD 216-276), a Syrian visionary of Judaeo-Christian ancestry from Persian Mesopotamia, Manichaeism spread rapidly into the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries AD and became one of the most persecuted heresies under Christian R... Details...

Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings: 2nd. ed., with CD-ROM: (Augsburg) Publisher's Comments: The best one-volume reader of Martin Luther's writings, this work has become the gold standard for use in seminary and college environments. It not only offers all of Luther's most influential, noted, and important writings in the modern translations from th... Details...

Martyrdom and Rome: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book examines the historical context of the earliest Christian martyrs, and anchors their grisly and often willful self-sacrifice to the everyday life and outlook of the cities (mostly Greek) of the Roman empire. By exploring the remains of contemporar... Details...

Martyrdom and Rome: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book examines the historical context of the earliest Christian martyrs, and anchors their grisly and often willful self-sacrifice to the everyday life and outlook of the cities (mostly Greek) of the Roman Empire. By exploring the remains of contemporar... Details...

Mission and Conversion: Proselytizing in the Religious History of the Roman Empire: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This is a controversial and important new examination of the origins of Christian mission, set against the background of ancient Judaism and the pagan culture of the Roman Empire. The author invites a total reconsideration of the grounds for religious conve... Details...

Music in Early Christian Literature — Series: Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: Newly translated from the original Greek, Latin and Syriac, this collection of some 400 passages of music from early Christian literature—New Testament to 450 A.D.--renders a large representative collection of liturgical chant accessible. Details...

Origen and the Life of the Stars: A History of an Idea: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: From the days of antiquity to the time of the Middle Ages, intellectuals have widely assumed that stars were alive, a belief that gave the cosmos an important position not only in Greek religion, but also in discussions of human psychology and eschatology. ... Details...

Origen: Contra Celsum: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments:Few works of the early Church are as interesting to the modern reader or as important to the historian as Origen's reply to the attack on Christianity made by the pagan Celsus. The Contra Celsum is the culmination of the great apologetic movement of the secon... Details...

Origins to Constantine: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: The first of the nine volume Cambridge History of Christianity series, Origins to Constantine provides a comprehensive overview of the essential events, persons, places and issues involved in the emergence of the Christian religion in the Mediterranean worl... Details...

Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety: Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: Drawing on the abundant material available for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, Professor Dodds examines the personal religious attitudes and experiences common to pagans and Christians in the period between Marcus Aurelius and Constanti... Details...