The Apostolic Fathers: I. Clement. II. Clement. Ignatius. Polycarp. Didache. Barnabas
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Fathers of the church
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Fathers of the church
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Author : Kirsopp Lake
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Christian literature, Early
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Author : Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780674996076
Enduring and influential early Christian texts. The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after New Testament times. Some of them were accorded almost Scriptural authority in the early Church. This new Loeb edition of these essential texts reflects current idiom and the latest scholarship. Here are the Letters of Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, among the most famous documents of early Christianity; these letters, addressing core theological questions, were written to a half dozen different congregations while Ignatius was en route to Rome as a prisoner, condemned to die in the wild-beast arena. Also in this collection is a letter to the Philippian church by Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna and friend of Ignatius, as well as an account of Polycarp's martyrdom. There are several kinds of texts in the Apostolic Fathers collection, representing different religious outlooks. The manual called the Didache sets forth precepts for religious instruction, worship, and ministry. The Epistle of Barnabas searches the Old Testament, the Jewish Bible, for testimony in support of Christianity and against Judaism. Probably the most widely read in the early Christian centuries was The Shepherd of Hermas, a book of revelations that develops a doctrine of repentance.
Author : Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Fathers of the church
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 1970
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ISBN : 9780674990289
Author : Kirsopp Lake
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2015-08-11
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ISBN : 9781296673444
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Author : Michael W. Holmes
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1585585009
The Apostolic Fathers is an important collection of writings revered by early Christians but not included in the final canon of the New Testament. Here a leading expert on these texts offers an authoritative contemporary translation, in the tradition of the magisterial Lightfoot version but thoroughly up-to-date. The third edition features numerous changes, including carefully revised translations and a new, more user-friendly design. The introduction, notes, and bibliographies have been freshly revised as well.
Author : Clayton N. Jefford
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441241779
The apostolic fathers were authors of nonbiblical church writings of the first and early second centuries. These works are important because their authors, Clement I, Hermas, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, and the author of the Epistle of Barnabas, were contemporaries of the biblical writers. Expressing pastoral concern, their writings are similar in style to the New Testament. Some of their writings, in fact, were venerated as Scripture before the official canon was decided. The Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament provides a comparison of the apostolic fathers and the New Testament that is at once comprehensive and accessible. What genres (letters, miracle stories, etc.) appear in what ways? What apostolic fathers seem to reflect which passages in the New Testament? What themes appear in both bodies of literature? How did the apostolic fathers adopt and adapt images from the New Testament? How do the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers contribute to our understanding of how early Christians understood themselves in relation to the mother faith of Judaism? Any attempt to compare the Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament faces the difficulty that each set of writings represents diverse authors and historical contexts within the early church. As a result, scholars who work in the field have typically restricted their research to individual authors and writings. Thus, it has been difficult to come to any general observations about the larger corpus. After carefully examining images, themes, and concepts found in the New Testament and the apostolic fathers, Jefford posits some general observations and insights about the beliefs of the early church.
Author : Kirsopp Lake
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Page : pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Christian literature, Early
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Author : Saint Bishop of Antioch Ignatius
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
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ISBN : 9781013853890
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