The Contemporary Church And The Early Church

Author : Paul A. Hartog
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606088999

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The Contemporary Church and the Early Church by Paul A. Hartog Pdf

As "evangelicals" face future challenges, many are turning back to the ancient church for inspiration. But these ancient-future approaches remain diverse and sometimes even at odds with one another. This volume demonstrates and analyzes the complexity of such contemporary church-early church engagements. Six scholars share diverse insights from the Patristic period, including lessons on evangelism and discipleship, community formation and maintenance, use of the "rule of faith," the preaching of social ethics, responses to cultural opposition, and Christological development. The volume closes with two critical responses, from confessional Lutheran and Baptist perspectives. These collected essays will remind contemporary readers of the importance of a reflective and responsible ressourcement of Patristic wisdom.

Author : Alan Kreider
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493400331

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The Patient Ferment of the Early Church by Alan Kreider Pdf

How and why did the early church grow in the first four hundred years despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional persecution? In this unique historical study, veteran scholar Alan Kreider delivers the fruit of a lifetime of study as he tells the amazing story of the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Challenging traditional understandings, Kreider contends the church grew because the virtue of patience was of central importance in the life and witness of the early Christians. They wrote about patience, not evangelism, and reflected on prayer, catechesis, and worship, yet the church grew--not by specific strategies but by patient ferment.

Author : Andrew B. McGowan
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441246318

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Ancient Christian Worship by Andrew B. McGowan Pdf

An Important Study on the Worship of the Early Church This introduction to the origins of Christian worship illuminates the importance of ancient liturgical patterns for contemporary Christian practice. Andrew McGowan takes a fresh approach to understanding how Christians came to worship in the distinctive forms still familiar today. Deftly and expertly processing the bewildering complexity of the ancient sources into lucid, fluent exposition, he sets aside common misperceptions to explore the roots of Christian ritual practices--including the Eucharist, baptism, communal prayer, preaching, Scripture reading, and music--in their earliest recoverable settings. Now in paper.

Author : Steve McKinion
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814756485

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Life and Practice in the Early Church by Steve McKinion Pdf

A collection of primary texts revealing how early Christians practiced their faith Life and Practice in the Early Church brings together a range of primary texts from the church's first five centuries to demonstrate how early Christians practiced their faith. Rather than focusing on theology, these original documents shed light on how early believers "did church," addressing such practical questions as, how did the church administer baptism? How were sermons delivered? How did the early church carry out its missions endeavors? Early Christian writings reveal a great deal about the tradition, as well as the wider culture in which it developed. Far from being monolithic, the documents which present the voices of the early church fathers in their own words demonstrate variation and diversity regarding how faith was worked out during the patristic period. The texts illuminate who was eligible for baptism, what was expected of worshippers, how the Eucharist was celebrated, and how church offices and their functions were organized. Contextual introductions explain practices and their development for those with little prior knowledge of Christian history or tradition. The pieces included here, all in accessible English translation, represent such sources as Justin Martyr, Tertullian, the Cappadocians, Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, and Augustine.

Author : J. Warner Wallace
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781434705464

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Cold-Case Christianity by J. Warner Wallace Pdf

Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator. Christianity could be defined as a “cold case”: it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. In Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide detective to look at the evidence and eyewitnesses behind Christian beliefs. Including gripping stories from his career and the visual techniques he developed in the courtroom, Wallace uses illustration to examine the powerful evidence that validates the claims of Christianity. A unique apologetic that speaks to readers’ intense interest in detective stories, Cold-Case Christianity inspires readers to have confidence in Christ as it prepares them to articulate the case for Christianity.

Author : Edwin Hatch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Church history
ISBN : HARVARD:HWRQIG

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The Organization of the Early Christian Churches by Edwin Hatch Pdf

Author : Ralph P. Martin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802816134

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Worship in the Early Church by Ralph P. Martin Pdf

Refers to New Testament teachings while delineating the nature of early Christian worship of God. Bibliogs.

Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467465625

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Evangelism in the Early Church by Michael Green Pdf

Now a modern classic, Michael Green’s Evangelism in the Early Church shows how the first Christians worked to spread the good news to the rest of the world. Studying the New Testament and church fathers, Green explores the earliest methods, motives, and strategies of spreading the good news. He also considers the obstacles to evangelism, using outreach to Gentiles and to Jews as examples of differing contexts for proclamation. Thoroughly informed by primary sources, this book will help contemporary readers learn from the past and renew their own evangelistic vision.

Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Church history
ISBN : 014013753X

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The Early Church by Henry Chadwick Pdf

Chadwickʹs Early Church covers, as the book cover suggests, "the story of emergent Christianity from the apostolic age to the dividing of the ways between the Greek East and the Latin West." The story unfolds with the Jewish and Roman background within which the beginning church was nourished. It then goes on to show how important it is for the church to establish order and unity amidst threats of persecution and heresy. The emergence of apologists helps not only the expansion of the church but also the construction of Christian doctrine. At the same time, controversies abound as the church encountered many different cultural and sociological challenges while trying out in reaction a variety of ideas. With chapter seven, the relation between church and state changes, resulting in a stronger influence of the state upon the church while accelerating the split between the Latin West and the Greek East. The Arian controversy shows a period of instability between state and church, and also deepens the split of East and West. But within the turmoil, ascetic practice, papacy, liturgy, and art are established, helping to transmit a common European culture while the Roman Empire begins to degenerate.

Author : Carl A. Volz
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015001741506

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Faith and Practice in the Early Church by Carl A. Volz Pdf

Author : D. H. Williams
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801027130

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Evangelicals and Tradition by D. H. Williams Pdf

Helps church leaders recover ancient understandings of Christian belief and practice from the early church fathers and apply them to ministry in the twenty-first century.

Author : Oskar Skarsaune
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830828449

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In the Shadow of the Temple by Oskar Skarsaune Pdf

Oskar Skarsaune gives us a new look into the development of the early church and its practice by showing us the evidence of interaction between the early Christians and rabbinic Judaism. He offers numerous fascinating episodes and glimpses into this untold story.

Author : W.H.C. Frend
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334048572

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The Early Church by W.H.C. Frend Pdf

Aimed at the undergraduate academic and interested lay person, this is a classic history of the formative period of the Church. It includes an account of Rome and 1st-century Judaism, the Gnostics and the conflicts of Eastern Christendom and examines such figures as Origen, Arian and St Augustine of Hippo. A bibliography of general works on Church history is also included.

Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802827683

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Evangelism in the Early Church by Michael Green Pdf

Provides a comprehensive look at the ways the first Christians -- from the New Testament period up until the middle of the third century -- worked to spread the good news to the rest of the world. This book will both show contemporary readers what can be learned from the past and help renew their own evangelistic vision.

Author : Harry Y. Gamble
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300069189

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Books and Readers in the Early Church by Harry Y. Gamble Pdf

This fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use of books in early Christianity. It explores the extent of literacy in early Christian communities; the relation in the early church between oral tradition and written materials; the physical form of early Christian books; how books were produced, transcribed, published, duplicated, and disseminated; how Christian libraries were formed; who read the books, in what circumstances, and to what purposes. Harry Y. Gamble interweaves practical and technological dimensions of the production and use of early Christian books with the social and institutional history of the period. Drawing on evidence from papyrology, codicology, textual criticism, and early church history, as well as on knowledge about the bibliographical practices that characterized Jewish and Greco-Roman culture, he offers a new perspective on the role of books in the first five centuries of the early church.