The Rise of Christian Beliefs

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The Rise of Christian Beliefs is written by Heikki Räisänen and published by Fortress Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1451409532 (ISBN 10) and 9781451409536 (ISBN 13).

Heikki Risnen offers a historical survey of the roots and first growth of the thoughts, values, and practices of the early Christians and explains the evolution of Christian belief in terms of vital adaptations to specific challenges. An ideal textbook for university introductory courses on the New Testament and Early Christianity, The Rise of Christian Beliefs offers chapters discussing paradigmatic events the life and death of Jesus and experiences of Easter, principal figures and groups, last things and afterlife, savior figures and the human condition, ethnicity, identity, and morality, and ritual community life.