The Spreading Flame: The Rise and Progress of Christianity from Its First Beginning to Eighth-Century England
The Spreading Flame: The Rise and Progress of Christianity from Its First Beginning to Eighth-Century England
Editor/Author
Bruce, F.F.
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Kingsley Books, Inc
Single-User Purchase Price:
$47.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$70.50
ISBN: 978-1-912149-11-7
Category: Religion & Theology - Christianity
Image Count:
2
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Bruce gives the reader a feel for the evangelistic fervor of the Apostles and the early Christians in a resource filled with solid, well-reasoned, richly researched facts.
Table of Contents
- Publisher's Introduction
- Preface
- Part I: The Dawn of Christianity
- I. Strangers in Corinth
- II. When the Time was Ripe
- III. A Light for the Nations
- IV. The Light Shines in the Darkness
- V. The Darkness Did Not Put it Out
- VI. The New Community
- VII. The Rabbi of Tarsus
- VIII. Antioch on the Orontes
- IX. Advance in Palestine
- X. The Council of Jerusalem
- XI. Into Europe
- XII. Paul and His Converts
- XIII. Diana of the Ephesians
- XIV. Christianity at Rome
- XV. Palestine: The End of the Beginning
- Part II: The Growing Day
- XVI. The Things That Are Not Cesar's
- XVII. The Fiery Trial
- XVIII. Christian Life and Worship
- XIX. Church Government
- XX. Relations Between Churches
- XXI. Prophets and Montanists
- XXII. The New Testament Writings
- XXIII. Marcion And After
- XXIV. The Earliest Christian Creed
- XXV. Early Christian Heresies
- XXVI. Defining the Faith
- XXVII. The Jews After A.D. 70
- XXVIII. Jews and Christians in Western Asia.
- XXIX. Christianity Farther East
- Part III: Light in the West
- XXX. Constantine and Christianity
- XXXI. The Council of Nicaea
- XXXII. From Nicaea to Chalcedon
- XXXIII. Imperial Decline
- XXXIV. Five Leading Churchmen
- XXXV. The Monastic Life
- XXXVI. Early British Christianity
- XXXVII. Beyond the Roman Wall
- XXXVIII. The Apostle of Ireland
- XXXIX. The Iona Community
- XL. Evangelizing the English
- XLI. England Takes Up the Torch
- Postscript
- F.F. Bruce
- Other Books By F.F. Bruce