The Crucible of Christianity: Judaism, Hellenism and the Historical Background to the Christian Faith (1969 Toynbee/Schalit), edited volume

The Crucible of Christianity: Judaism, Hellenism and the Historical Background to the Christian Faith (1969) is a volume edited by Arnold J. Toynbee.

Editions

Published in New York, NY: World Pub. Co., 1969

Table of contents

• 1. The Mediterranean world's age of agony: the historical antecedents / Arnold J. Toynbee
• 2. A clash of ideologies: Palestine under the Seleucids and Romans / Abraham Schalit
• 3. A divided faith: Jewish religious parties and sects / Kurt Schubert
• 4. A taste for things Greek: Hellenism in Syria and Palestine / A.H.M. Jones
• 5. The empire of Rome: the Roman government and the Christian church / A. Nicholas Sherwin-White
• 6. 'The world's great age': Graeco-Roman society and culture, 31 BC-AD 235 / J.-G. Gagé
• 7. Away from sheer beauty: architecture and art in the Graeco-Roman world, 31 BC-AD 390 / Jocelyn M.C. Toynbee
• 8. Ordeals of the mind: Greek philosophy from the age of Cicero to Plotinus / A. Hilary Armstrong
• 9. The son of man: Jesus in the context of history / David Flusser
• 10. Paganism's death struggle: religions in competition with Christianity / M.J. Vermaseren
• 11. 'That the scripture might be fulfilled': Christianity as a Jewish sect / Jean Daniélou
• 12. The word goes forth: Christianity as a missionary religion / Jean Daniélou
• 13. The philosophy that faith inspired: Greek philosophy in Philo and the church fathers / Harry Austryn Wolfson
• 14. Rival theologies: Gnosticism, Marcion, Origen / Robert M. Grant
• 15. The persecutions: Christianity's encounter with the Roman imperial government / G.E.M. Ste. Croix.