Prof. W.H.C. Frend's "Rise of Christianity:" Outline & Wiki-Bio

Frend, W.H.C. The Rise of Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984.

When catechetized in the Reformed faith, e.g. the Westminster Confession of Faith, learning is a corollary concern in life; it’s logical and natural to life in the Triune God who creates, sustains and preserves knowledge: Semper Fidelis et Sola Deo Gloria. Of course, good regulated Prayer Book doctrine, worship and piety is another corollary.

 

This magnum opus and highly recommended volume by a Scots Episcopalian, Prof. W.H.C. Frend of Glasgow University, 1022-page volume, is available at: http://www.amazon.com/The-Early-Church-SCM-Classics-ebook/dp/B00653OWSM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1389071078&sr=8-2&keywords=Frend+Early+Christian+Church

Contents

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1: Jews and Christian

1. The Jewish Background
   From 587 to 140 BC
   Palestine in the Last Century BC
   Sects and Parties
   The Dispersion
2. Jesus of Nazareth
   Baptism
   Temptations
   Jesus and John
   The Galilean Mission AD 28-29
   Martyr Prophet
   On to Jerusalem
   The Last Phase
3. Paul and the First Expansion 30-65
   The Jerusalem Community
   The Emergence of Paul
   The Mission
   The Opposition
   The Pauline Christ
   The New Religion and Society
   Paul and James
   The Pauline Ministry
   The Liturgy
   Baptism and the Eucharist
   Relation with the Authorities
   The Neronian Persecution
4. The Christian Synagogue 70-135
   The New Israel and the Old
   The Christian Mission
   The Church and Society
   Sound Doctrine and the Opponents
   The Christian Ministry
   The Liturgy
   Differing Interpretation
   The Christians and the Empire
5. Opposition Cult 135-80
   The Roman Empire in the Second Century
   The Opposition
   Christian Advance
6. Acute Hellenization 135-193
   The Gnostic Movement
   Reasons for the Success of Gnosticism
   The Alexandrian Gnostic Teachers
   The Gnostic Legacy
   Marcion
   Later Developments
7. The Emergence of Orthodoxy 135-193
   The Apologists
   Irenaeus
   Emergent Orthodoxy
   Threats to Unity
   Conclusion

Part 2: Christianity and the Roman Empire

1. Out of the Shadows 193-235
   The Severan Dynasty
   Christianity’s Rivals
   Orthodoxy
   Revival of Mission
   Pagan Reaction
   The Return of Peace
2. Struggle and Advance 235-260
   Christian Progress
   Manicheism
   The Decian Persecution
   Valerian
3. The Third Century: The Western Churches 190-260
   Latin Christianity
4.  The Third Century: Christian Platonism of Alexandria and its Opponents 190- 275
   Christian Platonists
5.  Church and People in the Third Century
   Authority and Church Order
   Bishops and Clergy
   The Seniores
   The People
   Art, Literature and Ethics
   Rural Christianity and the First Monks
6. The Age of Diocletian 270-305
   The Pagan Front
   The Advance of Christianity
   Diocletian and the Great Persecution
7. The Constantinian Revolution 305-330
   Tetrarchy and Dynasty
   The Propaganda War
   The Hinge of Fate 311-313
   From Milan to Chyrsopolis 313-324
   The Donatists: Pandora’s Box
   Arius
   Council of Nicaea
   Constantinople: Nova Roma

Part 3: From Constantine to Chalcedon

1. Toward Byzantinism 330-361
   Constantine and Athanasius
   The Council of Sardica 342/43
   The Search for Equilibrium 343-53
   Constantius as Sole Emperor 353-361
   Constantius and the Quest for a Unifying Creed
2. From Pagan to Christian Society 330-360
   The New Synthesis
   The Process of Christianization
   Christianity and the Countryside
3. Hero of a Lost Cause: The Emperor Julian 360-363
   The Early Years
   The Successful General
   The Failed Revolution
4. New Perspectives in the West and East 363-399
   The West
   The East
5. The North African Dimension
   The Donatists
   Augustine
   Pelagius and Pelagianism
6.  Christianity and Barbarism: The West 380-450
   The End of the Pagan Ideal
   Claudian
   Prudentius
   Priscillian
   Paulinus
   Jerome
   Honoratus
   John Cassian
   The Church and the Internal Crisis of the Empire
7.  The Road to Chalcedon 398-451
   The Survival of the East Roman Provinces
   John Chyrsostom at Constantinople 398-404
   Nestorius and Cyril 428-431
   The Formula of Reunion 433
   The Interlude 433-46
   Dioscorus and Eutyches
   Chalcedon 451

Part 4: The Parting of Ways

1. The Catholic Recovery in the West 451-536
   Britain
   North Africa under the Vandals
   Gaul
   Italy
   The Acacian Schism and its Aftermath
   The Decline of the Ostrogothic Kingdom
2.  Justinian and the Byzantine Achievement 527-65
   Justinian’s Renewal (Renovatio)
   The Reoccupation of North Africa 533-34
   Byzantine Art and Architecture
   The Emergence of the Monophysite Church 519-31
   The Emergence of Neo-Chalcedonianism
   The Three Chapters 544-54
   The Failure of the Reconquista 555-565
3.  “And East is East…” 565-604
   Rome and Constantinople
   Chalcedonians and Monophysites
   The Celtic Irruption
   St. Benedict and Monasticism
   Pope Gregory 1

Epilogue

General Bibliography

Appendixes

Synopsis of Events

Maps

Names Index

Subject Index

William Hugh Clifford Frend

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Hugh Clifford Frend (11 January 1916 – 1 August 2005) was an English ecclesiastical historian, archaeologist and Anglican priest.

Contents

 1 Academic career

2 Military career

3 Ministry

4 Public recognition

5 Family

6 Major works

7 See also

8 References

9 External links

Academic career

• Haileybury College (scholar)
• Keble College, Oxford (scholar, B.A. First class in Modern History 1937, M.A. 1951, D.Phil. with thesis on Donatists 1940, D.D. 1966)
• Craven Scholarship to study in Berlin (with Hans Lietzmann) and North Africa
• Research fellowship at University of Nottingham
• Associate Director, Egypt Exploration Society, Q'asr Ibrim, Nubia 1963-64
• Bye Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (B.D. 1964)
• Fellow and University lecturer in Divinity. During this time the Prince of Wales, then reading archaeology and anthropology at Trinity, was one of his students.
• Professor of Ecclesiastical History, and Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, in the University of Glasgow 1969-84 (Emeritus 1984-2005)
• Chairman, Association of University Teachers 1976-78
• Frend once stood for local government as Liberal Party candidate in Cambridge
• In the 1980s he worked at Carthage with a team from the University of Michigan
• In retirement was again elected Bye Fellow of Caius and in his last years wrote a new book about the early life of Augustine

Military career

• Assistant Principal, War Office 1940
• Seconded to Cabinet Office and served on Committees for Allied Supplies and the Free French
• Liaison officer, Psychological Warfare Branch, Tunis
• Service in Austria for 18 months
• Italy
• Commissioned officer, Queen's Royal Regiment 1947-67

Ministry

Frend inclined towards the Low Church tradition. He was a sometimes reluctant liberal who cautiously supported the ordination of women but criticised Bishop Jenkins of Durham over his non-traditional ideas about Christmas. He was considered a good and humble pastor and an enlightening, if theologically uncoventional, preacher.

• Reader 1956-82
• Ordained deacon in the Scottish Episcopal Church 1982
• Non Stipendiary Minister, Aberfoyle 1982-84
• Ordained priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church 1983
• Priest-in-charge, Barnwell with Thurning and Luddington 1984-90
• Permission to Officiate in the Diocese of Ely 1990-2005
• Until his death, he continued to take two services every month

Public recognition

• Złoty Krzyż Zasługi z Mieczami (Gold Cross of Merit with Swords), Government of the Polish Republic in Exile
• Territorial Efficiency Decoration 1959
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London 1952
• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society 1954
• D.D. honoris causa, University of Edinburgh 1974
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1979
• Fellow of the British Academy 1983
• He set up and financed the Frend Medal, awarded by the Society of Antiquaries for archaeology, history and topography of the early Christian Church.^[1] Recipients include Harold McCartet Taylor and Charles Thomas (1981),^[2] Philip Rahtz (2003), Günter P Gehring (2000)^[3] Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle (1986),^[4] Nancy Gauthier (2002),^[5] and Samuel Turner 2004.^[6]

Family

Frend was married to Mary Grace (née Crook; 1951-2002). They had one son, Simon, and one daughter, Sally. His father was a priest of High Church persuasion.

Major works

• The Donatist Church (1952)
• Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church (1965)
• The Rise of the Monophysite Movement (1972)
• The Rise of Christianity (1984)

See also

• Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Glasgow
• List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow
• Trinity College, Glasgow

References

1. Jump up ^ "Society of Antiquaries of London - Volume 83, 2003". sal.org.uk. 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2011. "archaeology, history and topography of the early Christian Church" 
2. Jump up ^ "Society of Antiquaries of London - Harold McCartet Taylor, C.B.E., T.D., M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D.". sal.org.uk. 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2011. "Charles Thomas" 
3. Jump up ^ "Society of Antiquaries of London - Volume 80, 2000 work=sal.org.uk". 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2011. "Günter P Gehring" 
4. Jump up ^ ^{[author missing]} (2011 [last update]). "Society of Antiquaries of London - Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle". sal.org.uk. Retrieved 3 June 2011. "1986"  Check date values in: |date= (help)
5. Jump up ^ ^{[author missing]} (2011 [last update]). "Society of Antiquaries of London - Volume 82, 2002". sal.org.uk. Retrieved 3 June 2011. "Nancy Gauthier"  Check date values in: |date= (help)
6. Jump up ^ ^{[author missing]} (2011 [last update]). "Society of Antiquaries of London - Salon 87 - 25 April 2004". sal.org.uk. Retrieved 3 June 2011. "Samuel Turner"  Check date values in: |date= (help)

External links

• Church Times obituary
• Telegraph obituary
The Times obituary

Prof. Frend in the Introduction gives several book recommendations along with the projected narrative. Where a Marine General makes recommendations,  Colonels, Captains, Staff Sergeants and Lance Corporal hop—in the Marine Corps. Here are three.

Danielou, Jean and Marrou, Henri. The First Six Hundred Years (Christian Centuries, Vol. 1).  Mahway, NJ: Paulist Press, 1964. http://www.amazon.com/First-Hundred-Years-Christian-Centuries/dp/0809102757/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389225537&sr=8-1&keywords=Danielou+the+first+six+hundred+years

 

Kidd, B.J. A History of the Church. No location: Forgotten Books, 2012.  

http://www.amazon.com/History-Church-Vol-Classic-Reprint/dp/B008K4EH3Y/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1389225848&sr=8-2&keywords=B.J.+kidd

Von Harnack, Adolf. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries. No location: Nabu Press, 2010. http://www.amazon.com/mission-expansion-Christianity-first-centuries/dp/1178061434/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1389225757&sr=8-2&keywords=von+harnack+mission+and+expansion

 

Prof. Frend notes that by 190 AD, corresponding to Part 1 in his treatment, Christianity had penetrated to every corner of the Roman Empire and to every level of society.  The Church had been tight and closely organized but faced Gnostic teachers and Montanist prophets. 

 

Part 2 deals with the creative minds and developments of the period.  Topics include: Origen, varied artists, the Confessor-Martyrs--of the Deceian, Valerianic, Diocletianic periods, Nicaea to Chalcedon (325-451), Athanasius, Basil of Caesarea, Apollinaris of Laodicea, Augustine, Theodore Mopsuestia, and Cyril of Alexandria.

 

Prof. Frend notes that “Early Christian Studies” are threatened in the academy by competing interests and leaders all too willing to ax courses and bibliographies from the curricula.  In this context, he points to other weighty voices needing emphasis: A.H.M. Jones, T.R. Glover, and F.C. Burkitt.