Broken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church

by Rowan A. Greer

Book Overview

A discussion by a broadly respected authority of the complicated relationship between theology and ordinary life in the early church. The first section of the book scrutinizes theology with a view to understanding its bearing upon Christian understandings of life (the theological "stories" of Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine). The second section examines aspects of ordinary life and explores how Christians related them to religious ideas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271030151
• ISBN13: 9780271030159
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"