История раннего христианства / The history of early Christianity

Compiler: T.I. Roshchina

The electronic bibliography includes literature on the history of early Christianity (1–8 centuries) in Russian and Belarusian languages published between 1800 and 1995. The sources are kept in the biggest libraries of Belarus: the National Library of Belarus, the Central Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, and the Fundamental Library of the Belarusian State University.

CONTENTS

Part 1

Sources on the history of early Christianity

• Non-Christian sources of the period of primordial Christianity
• Qumran manuscripts
• Writings of early Christians
• Writings of the early Fathers
• Church stories
• Other Christian literature
• Non-Christian sources about Christians (2-5 centuries)

Part 2

Literature on the history of Christianity

• The origin of Christianity
• General church stories
• Christianity in different regions of the ancient and medieval world
• Missionary work
• Persecution of Christians
• Transformation of Christianity into the state religion in the time of Constantine the Great
• The history of church synods
• The history of early monkhood
• The history of papcy
• Heresies
• The structure of the old church
• Church hierarchy
• The Sacrament
• The Creed
• Church law
• Homiletics
• Christian philosophy and theology in the 1-8 centuries Christian art and culture
• Christian education
• Private life of old Christians
• Church, state and society
• Christianity and other religions

Part 3

Reference and bibliographic editions

• Historiography of the history of early Christianity
• Reference materials
• Bibliography
• Name index

Size: 1312 Kb. 100 copies.