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Early Libyan Christianity : uncovering a North African tradition / Thomas C. Oden. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, (c)2011.Description: 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780830839438
LOC classification:
  • BR190.O23.E275 2011
  • BR190
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Contents:
A buried history awaiting discovery -- Libya in biblical times -- The Cyrene-Jerusalem link: early Christianity in Cyrene -- The Cyrenaic core of early Christian leadership -- Libyan voices in Christian history before Nicaea -- Synesius of Cyrene -- Five centuries of Christian presence in Cyrene -- The early Christian presence in eastern Libya -- Early Christian presence in Tripolitania -- Why Libya? -- Conclusion: the Libyan contribution to Christianity.
Subject: Uncovering this North African tradition and offering it to a wide reading audience is the task that Tom Oden sets for himself in this fascinating tour de force. The book, originating as lectures delivered at the Da'wa Islamic University in Tripoli in 2008 and later expanded as the W.H. Griffith Thomas Lectures in 2009 at Dallas Theological Seminary, has been expanded and refined to provide additional insights and references, surveying the texts, architecture and landmarks of this important period of Christian history.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction BR190.O36 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001841846

A buried history awaiting discovery -- Libya in biblical times -- The Cyrene-Jerusalem link: early Christianity in Cyrene -- The Cyrenaic core of early Christian leadership -- Libyan voices in Christian history before Nicaea -- Synesius of Cyrene -- Five centuries of Christian presence in Cyrene -- The early Christian presence in eastern Libya -- Early Christian presence in Tripolitania -- Why Libya? -- Conclusion: the Libyan contribution to Christianity.

Uncovering this North African tradition and offering it to a wide reading audience is the task that Tom Oden sets for himself in this fascinating tour de force. The book, originating as lectures delivered at the Da'wa Islamic University in Tripoli in 2008 and later expanded as the W.H. Griffith Thomas Lectures in 2009 at Dallas Theological Seminary, has been expanded and refined to provide additional insights and references, surveying the texts, architecture and landmarks of this important period of Christian history.

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