Early Christian Writings : The Apostolic Fathers,9780140444759

Early Christian Writings : The Apostolic Fathers

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ISBN13: 9780140444759
ISBN10: 0140444750
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1987-07-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

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 letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of whom were probably disciples of the Apostles, they provide a first-hand account of the early Church and outline a form of early Christianity still drawing on the theology and traditions of its parent religion, Judaism. Included here are the first Epistle of Bishop Clement of Rome, an impassioned plea for harmony; The Epistle of Polycarp; The Epistle of Barnabas; The Didache; and the Seven Epistles written by Ignatius of Antioch - among them his moving appeal to the Romans that they grant him a martyr's death.

Table of Contents

General Introduction 9(4)
General Bibliography 13(2)
Note on the Text 15(2)
The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
17(36)
The Epistles of Ignatius:
53(60)
To the Ephesians
59(10)
To the Magnesians
69(8)
To the Trallians
77(6)
To the Romans
83(8)
To the Philadelphians
91(8)
To the Smyrnaeans
99(8)
To Polycarp
107(6)
The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians and The Martyrdom of Polycarp
113(24)
The Epistle to Diognetus
137(16)
The Epistle of Barnabas
153(32)
The Didache
185
Map of Ignatius's route 54

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