TY - BOOK AU - Foster, John TI - The first advance: Church History 1: AD 29 - 500 SN - 0281045615 U1 - 270.1 FOS PY - 1991///. CY - London: PB - Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) KW - Church history KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 N1 - 1. Beginnings --2. The House-church --3. The church and its mission --4. Which Scriptures? Which creed? Which ministry? --5. The Roman Empire: through persecution to Pro-Christian Emperor --6. First Christian Kingdom and first Christian nation --7. Parthia/Persia: through persecution to toleration --8. Both shores of the Red Sea --9. Wild peoples of the north --10. Doctrines that matter most --11. The coming of the monks --12. What Christians today owe to the Early Church ER -