Antyk chrześcijański

Abstract

1. The ancient Christianity is the history of incarnating the Revelation into the Greek-Roman culture within the compas of six or seven centuries on the territory of the whole of Imperium Romanum; it comprises all the disciplines of private, social and public life, where the process of Christianization took place. The process of symbiosis between Christianity and the evangelized peoples was long-lasting and mutual. The ancient Christianity cannot be understood without the ancient heathenry. 2. The ancient Christianity comprises a number of theological disciplines of historical character, the first of them being patrology. The main subsidiary disciplines are: Christian archaeology, papyrology and classical philology. Establishing the proper relation between the ancient Christianity and the classical philology seems to be most important here. 3. The prospects of research on the ancient Christianity are great, since the number of sources increases and there is a possibility of a better interpretation of them. A great part of the literary monuments are in need of new critical and commented editions, they require the establishing of the authorship and chronology. To the problems needing further research belong: Christian Greek and Latin languages, especially in the semantic aspects very desirable are more detailed studies, even fragmentary ones, on the point of contact of Christianity and the pagan culture in its various disciplines, indexes to texts, prosopographic research and translations of Old-Christian texts.