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020			_a9780195208924
050			_aBR66.5 _b.D58 1992
100			_aDizionario patristico e di antichità cristiane. English
245			_aEncyclopedia of the early church / _cproduced by the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum and edited by Angelo Di Berardino ; translated from the Italian by Adrian Walford ; with a foreword and bibliographic amendments by W.H.C. Frend
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c1992
300			_a2 volumes : _bill., maps ; _c30 cm
500			_aTranslation of: Dizionario patristico e di antichità cristiane
500			_aSuperseded by the 2014 publication entitled Encyclopedia of ancient Christianity (Nuovo dizionario patristico e di antichità cristiane. English)
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505			_avolume 1. A-M -- volume 2. N-Z, synoptic table, maps, illustrations, index
520			_a 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
538			_aAlso issued online
650			_aChristian literature, Early _vDictionaries
650			_aChurch history _vDictionaries _yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600
650			_aFathers of the church _vDictionaries
650			_aChristianity and culture _vDictionaries _xHistory _yEarly church, ca. 30- 600
655			_2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423826 _bDictionaries.
655			_2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 _bHistory.
700			_aDi Berardino, Angelo, _eeditor
710			_aIstituto patristico Augustinianum (Rome, Italy)
760			_bNuovo dizionario patristico e di antichità cristiane. English
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