This book is one of the most significant in the formation of the doctrine of the church. Yet the average student of Christian doctrine rarely gets to grips with the blackground or the literature of…
, the most important aspects of this text is the concern that these early Church leaders had in the direction that the Church was leading. Questions that popped up at these times were and still are…
Contemporary scholarship on the historical Jesus agrees that the announcement of the kingdom of God was central to his teaching. However, the consensus that the kingdom played an important role in …
The Apostolic Fathers is a collection of early Christian writings from the late first and early second centuries, traditionally considered to have been written by those connected with the Apostles,…
The Apostolic church is a comprehensive and clearly-written survey of the first-century Christian church by noted New Testament scholar Everett F. Harrison. Harrison begins with a brief description…
The aim of this book is to pourtray the organized life of the Christian Society as that was lived in the thousands of little communities formed by the proclamation of the Gospel of our Lord during …
In Roman law you were what you wore. This legal principle became highly significant because, beginning in the first century A.D., a "new" kind of woman emerged across the Roman empire 'a woman whos…
Through deft use of available data and texts, Wagner brings the enigmatic second century to life. Selecting five fateful challenges--issues of Creation, human nature, Jesus' identities, roles of th…
I thoroughly enjoyed re-reading "The Apostolic Fathers," and was surprised how much I learned from the exercise. It had been over 30 years since I read these texts, so,understandably, I entered the…
Dekade Oikumenis Gereja-gereja dalam Solidaritas dengan kaum Perempuan telah dicanangkan. Selama Dekade ini kita sebagai gereja akan mengidentifikasikan setiap hambatan yg menghalangi partisipasi k…