This is the fourth version of the History of the Church by Eusenius that I have. The first is a traditional translation from the 1800s and is very accurate, complete and a little stilted in languag…
The first Christians are members of household, possibly associations, and certainly cities in the first-century Graeco-Roman world before they embraced the preaching of the Gospel. This six-volume …
This book, along with everything else Schmithals has written, is an important contribution to the origin of "apostle." Here, Schmithals argues that the orthodox Christian view of "apostle" is not b…
This present index has been compiled not only as an aid in biblical studies, but also to shed light on the patristic literature itself and on church history.
St Gregory writes with amazing clarity about the art of pastoral ministry. He challenges readers to consider the burden of this calling, the ethical character demanded by it, the need to be very di…
The Church herself has come to realize this fact in a striking way. Opening the second session of the Council, Pope Paul noted that in the Church there is "a keen desire to come at last to a full u…
This volume surveys the views of major time periods of church history. Each part begins again at the beginning in order to look at the literature and traditions of Christianity from different persp…
The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of le…
Although this book deals with the earliest period of church history, it is actually the lst member of a trilogy, the other two being miss deanesly's history of the medieval church and this book. It…