Peter Gemeinhardt's textbook covering the first six centuries of Christianity deals with its role as a religion during this time, its practices of piety, the formation of doctrine through theology, and the church as an organised institution. The central focus is on the tension created by the high levels of inner-Christian plurality and the search for identity in the competitive coexistence between monotheistic as well as polytheistic cults and schools of philosophy.

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Born 1970; 1990-96 studies of Protestant Theology at the Universities of Marburg and Göttingen; 2001 Dr. theol., University of Marburg; 2003 Ordination; 2006 Habilitation University of Jena; 2007 professor of Church History at University of Göttingen; 2021-23 Dean of the Faculty of Theology at Göttingen.