TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dizionario patristico e di antichità cristiane. English
AU  - Di Berardino, Angelo,
ED  - Istituto patristico Augustinianum (Rome, Italy)  
TI  - Encyclopedia of the early church
SN  - 0195208927 
AV  - BR66.5 .D58 1992
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Christian literature, Early
KW  - Dictionaries
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Fathers of the church
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - History
KW  - Early church, ca. 30- 600
KW  - fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423826
KW  - fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628
N1  - Translation of: Dizionario patristico e di antichità cristiane; Superseded by the 2014 publication entitled Encyclopedia of ancient Christianity (Nuovo dizionario patristico e di antichità cristiane. English)
; Includes bibliographical references and index; volume 1. A-M -- volume 2. N-Z, synoptic table, maps, illustrations, index
N2  - 


520    The Encyclopedia of the Early Church is a two-volume 
       reference work providing concise and precise information 
       on all topics concerning the first eight centuries of 
       Christianity. Valuable to historians, archaeologists, 
       philosophers, and philologists as well as theologians, 
       this work extends the knowledge of how Christianity 
       evolved to become the most important influence in the 
       history of Western civilization. Tracing the growth of the
       church from its tiny beginnings in an upper room to its 
       dominance of Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa in 
       the eighth century, scholars from many disciplines 
       produced articles ranging from a few sentences to ten 
       thousand words on all the major and most of the minor 
       people, works, ideas, and issues of the formative period 
       of Christianity. The first major encyclopedia to cover the
       life, thought, and growth of Christianity, this work 
       offers full treatment of doctrines, creeds, and heresies, 
       of iconography and art history, of archaeology and 
       geography, and of monasticism and asceticism

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