The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God by Wilken, Robert Louis

The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God

" A] magnificently learned, deeply felt and surprisingly pellucid set of essays."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World...
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Author: Robert Louis Wilken
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The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God by Wilken, Robert Louis

The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God

$75.44

The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God

$75.44
Author: Robert Louis Wilken
Format: Paperback
Language: English
" A] magnificently learned, deeply felt and surprisingly pellucid set of essays."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

"A delight to read. It is written as history ought to be, especially for nonspecialist readers."--Richard A. Kauffman, Christian Century

In this eloquent introduction to early Christian thought, eminent religious historian Robert Louis Wilken examines the tradition that such figures as St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and others set in place. These early thinkers constructed a new intellectual and spiritual world, Wilken shows, and they can still be heard as living voices in the modern world.

In chapters on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, Wilken shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives.
Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.

Author: Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/11/2005
Pages: 398
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.52w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9780300105988

About the Author
Robert Louis Wilken is William R. Kenan Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia. His previous books include The Land Called Holy.

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