{"product_id":"encyclopedia-of-ancient-christianity-9780830829439","title":"Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMidwest Publishing Association Award of Excellence (Scholarly\/Reference)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReaders' Choice Awards Honorable Mention\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of Ancient Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e covers eight centuries of the Christian church and comprises 3,220 entries by a team of 266 scholars from 26 countries representing a variety of Christian traditions. It draws upon such fields as archaeology, art and architecture, biography, cultural studies, ecclesiology, geography, history, philosophy, and theology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis three-volume encyclopedia offers unparalleled, comprehensive coverage of the people, places, and ideas of ancient Christianity. The encyclopedia's A-to-Z coverage extends from \"Aaron (iconography)\" to \"Zosimus, pope\" and chronologically from Christianity's origins to Bede (d. 735) in the West and John of Damascus (d. ca. 749) in the Greek East, with detailed emphasis on the first four centuries of Christian history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition updates and expands on previous Italian and English-language editions with the addition of more than 500 new articles (added to the current Italian or English edition), including 30 articles exclusive to IVP's edition. Extensive cross-referencing provides ease in exploring related articles, and helpful bibliographies, including primary sources (texts, critical editions, translations) and key secondary sources (books and journal articles), give access to the very latest in-depth scholarship in countless disciplines of study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIVP's new \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of Ancient Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) is translated from \u003ci\u003eNuovo dizionario patristico e di antichita cristiane\u003c\/i\u003e (2006-2008), produced by the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, the world's foremost center for partristic studies, under the direction of Professor Angelo Di Berardino, and it greatly updates and expands the 1992 \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of the Early Church\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford University Press\/James Clarke).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Rev. Dr. Joel C. Elowsky (PhD, Drew University) is associate professor of historical theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He has served as the operations manager for the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and has edited the two volumes on John's Gospel in that series. He is the volume editor for \u003ci\u003eWe Believe in the Holy Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e in the Ancient Christian Doctrine series and has edited volumes on Theodore of Mopsuestia and Cyril of Alexandria in the Ancient Christian Texts series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngelo Di Berardino is past president and current professor of patrology at the Augustinian Patristic Institute (Augustinianum) in Rome. He is the editor or author of authoritative works on the early church, including \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of the Early Church\u003c\/i\u003e (recently updated and expanded in Italian as \u003ci\u003eNuovo dizionario patristico e di antichità cristiane\u003c\/i\u003e) and \u003ci\u003ePatrology: The Eastern Fathers from the Council of Chalcedon to John of Damascus.\u003c\/i\u003e He also serves as the Italian-language editor for the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas C. Oden (1931-2016), was the general editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and the Ancient Christian Doctrine series as well as the author of \u003ci\u003eClassic Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e, a revision of his three-volume systematic theology. He was the director of the Center for Early African Christianity at Eastern University in Pennsylvania and he served as the Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Theology at The Theological School of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Oden was active in the Confessing Movement in America, particularly within the United Methodist Church and was president of The Institute for Classical Christian Studies. He suggested that Christians need to rely upon the wisdom of the historical Church, particularly the early Church, rather than on modern scholarship and theology and said his mission was \"to begin to prepare the postmodern Christian community for its third millennium by returning again to the careful study and respectful following of the central tradition of classical Christianity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Hoover (M.Div., Gordon Conwell) is IVP's associate editorial director and senior editor for IVP Academic. Since 1999 he has served as in-house editor in the area of patristic studies, overseeing editorial work on the 29-volume Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, the 5-volume Ancient Christian Doctrine series, the 15-volume Ancient Christian Texts series and, most recently, the \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of Ancient Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"IVP Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514585649426,"sku":"9780830829439","price":436.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6257d88c-670c-4ca8-bd5f-a2403e4d38d8.jpg?v=1730988251","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/encyclopedia-of-ancient-christianity-9780830829439","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}