Books in the Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World series

This book deconstructs instances of religious conflict within the formative centuries of Christianity. It explores the theoretical foundations of religious conflict; the dynamics of religious conflict within the context of persecution and martyrdom; and the relationship between religious conflict and religious identity.

This volume illustrates the complexity and variety of early Christian thought on the subject of the image of God as a theological concept, and the difficulties that arise even in the interpretation of particular authors who gave a cardinal place to the image of God in their expositions of Christian doctrine. The first part illustrates both the presence and the absence of the image of God in the earliest Christian literature; the second examines various studies in deification, both implicit and explicit; the third explores the relation between iconography and the theological notion of the image

This volume offers a new interpretation of Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho (c. 160 CE).

This book adds new knowledge to the ongoing discussion of slavery in early Christian discourse. Kartzow argues that the complex tension between metaphor and social reality in early Christian discourse is undertheorized.

This volume illustrates the complexity and variety of early Christian thought on the subject of the image of God as a theological concept, and the difficulties that arise even in the interpretation of particular authors who gave a cardinal place to the image of God in their expositions of Christian doctrine. The first part illustrates both the p