The Apostles (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

On Sale: Sep 6, 2011
Page Count: 230 pages
Publisher: BookAnnex
ISBN-13: 9781411438651

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This 1866 volume, the second installment of Renan’s monumental History of the Origins of Christianity, picks up from the death of Jesus and continues with the lives of the apostles, the organization of the Church of Jerusalem, and the spread of Christianity up to the time of St. Paul’s first mission, always against the backdrop of Roman civilization.

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Ernest Renan (1823-1892) was a philosopher born in the French province of Brittany. He was a passionate scholar of Biblical philology and early Christianity. Anatole France called him the incarnation of modernity. His works include La Réforme intellectuelle et morale (1871), Dialogues philosophiques (1871), Antichrist (1876), Ecclesiastes (1882), and L'Avenir de la science (1890).