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The Beginning of Christianity (1943) is a book by Clarence Tucker Craig.
Abstract
Editions and translations
Published in New York, NY: Abingdon, 1943. Reissued in 1960.
Table of contents
The background of the Gospel. The land and the people ; Religious life among the Jews -- The announcement of the Gospel. The sources of our knowledge of Jesus ; John the Baptist ; The kingdom of God and the signs of its coming ; The interpreter of the law of God ; The God of Jesus ; The career of Jesus -- The beginnings of the church. The origin of Christian belief ; Widening horizons of faith ; The conversion of Paul ; The problem of Gentile inclusion ; The wonders of the new age ; The ethical standards of the new faith ; Jesus in the new faith -- The expansion of the church. The background of Gentile faith ; Carrying the Gospel to Europe ; Problems of Gentile churches ; The fight with legalism ; The close of the apostolic age -- The consolidation of the church. The development of church organization ; Formulations of the new faith ; The combating of false teaching ; The moral instruction of new converts ; The relation to the state and society ; The Christian hope ; What is the Gospel?