Sentences with phrase «end of the first century»

Fourth, if I understand your comments about the church and you are being critical of the church, this could be said about much of the church at the end of the first century.

Was he the beloved disciple or was the book, as an ancient tradition suggested, written by an elder called John of Ephesus towards the end of the first century?

By the end of the first century, the membership of the church was predominantly gentile.

It is found in the first Epistle of Clement, dating from the end of the first century, and there the interpretation is given.

By the end of the first century, and certainly during the second century, a good deal of readjustment in Christian thinking had to be done.

p. 654, 80 - 90 % of the critical sch - olars believe the letter was written by a pseudo Paul toward the end of the first century, early second century.

It is roughly from the end of the first century, when the earliest Christian proclamations were already requiring some reinterpretation, that some aspects of the ancient character of religion began slowly to return.

The stories of his birth are found only in the first two chapters of Matthew and Luke, both written near the end of the first century.

It was probably written toward the end of the first century or the early part of the second, after Christianity was well established in the Greek world.

The prophets began to decline in importance; the Revelation provides evidence for the continuation of prophecy as an effective force in the life of the Church in Asia, but the «Teaching of the Twelve Apostles», while treating genuine prophets, with respect, applies rules to their conduct which suggest that in Syria by the end of the first century prophecy was on the wane.

It may well be that the church at the end of the first century, living under Roman rule and permission, is anxious to underline the Jewish responsibility and to minimize the Roman part.

-- 80 - 90 % of the critical scholars believe the letter was written by a pseudo Paul toward the end of the first century, early second century.

«Here John states quite clearly that his intended audience was Christians in western Asia Minor at the end of the first century AD.»

Further, it will be shown, this diversity continued to some degree among the early Christians and is present in the New Testament, and in spite of the fact that the more materialistic interpretation became dominant by the end of the first century, some diversity of thought continued into the following centuries.

We get some idea of what was happening towards the end of the first century, at least in some quarters, by examining the new way in which the Fourth Evangelist speaks about resurrection.

The fact that a Gospel as late as that of John could narrate such a different account of the coming of the Holy Spirit shows that the Pentecostal story in Acts was far from being universally known and accepted at the end of the first century.

Nevertheless, from the end of the first century it seems to have been generally accepted by the Church that Jesus was divine in one manner or another.

This suggests that by the end of the first century, when John's Gospel was written, both baptism as the external sign of regeneration and the Holy Spirit as its inner agency had become linked to the concept of the kingdom.

Ever since the end of the first century the traditional view of the resurrection appeared to embody reasonably clear and final answers to these questions and it was supported by the New Testament records, which quickly came to be regarded as historical evidence written by eye - witnesses.

A fourth chapter shows that Matthew's and Luke's Gospels were composed before the end of the first century AD and no previous witness contradicts their testimony to the virgin birth.

From at least the end of the first century Christians have observed Fridays, and later the forty days of Lent, as fast days in commemoration of the passion.

And then towards the end of the first century the process was complete.

That theology was pretty much debunked by the end of the first century, but its practical implications have been part of the Church ever since.

From Father Raymond Brown's book, An Introduction to the New Testament, -80-90 % of the critical scholars believe the letter was written by a pse - udo Paul toward the end of the first century, early second century.

The controversies in John portray the arguments between the Christians and the Jews toward the end of the first century.

By the end of the first century, however, writings such as the Didache and First Clement clearly reflect a dual structure of deacons and elders and, a little later, Ignatius assumes that several elders submit to a single bishop.

From the end of the first century onwards the proclamation of the Christ risen and ascended came to be understood in something like the following terms: on Easter Day the crucified body of Jesus was restored to life by God, and came forth from the tomb, and appeared to men.