In this volume, David John McCollough challenges the common assumptions that Paul thought the Spirit was communicated through water baptism, that 'justification

This volume advances our understanding of early Christianity as a lived religion by approaching it through its rites, the emotions and affects surrounding those

The Handbook provides an indispensable account of the ritual world of early Christianity from the beginning of the movement up to the end of the sixth century.

Based on the paradigmatic shift in both liturgical and ritual studies, this multidisciplinary volume presents a collection of case studies on rituals in the ear

Early Christian World presents an exhaustive, erudite and lavishly illustrated treatment of how the small movement which formed around Jesus in Galilee became t