For Christian writers after Eusebius, however, it was generally evident that the writings of the Apostolic Fathers belonged to the documents
of early church history, not to the New Testament canon.
The leading English divines have similarly rooted their theological life in the gigantic figures
of early church history.
I first picked up the book a few years ago in hardcover and thought it was extremely useful then as really the only somewhat reliable source
of early church history.
Not exact matches
Never - the-less, I am fascinated by biblical scholarship, the
history of the
early church, and at any rate think people should have the correct facts about what was written and what the original authors meant it to mean.
There are so many things that have faced human society that were completely incomprehensible to the original disciples and apostles, the
early church, and yet the
church endures, the
church survives because the Gospel isn't tied to one particular time in
history, one particular school
of thought, one particular framework.
Even though
history clearly speaks to Paul dying at the hands
of Nero, all the apostles except John being murdered, and
early church fathers such as Polycarp being killed by Rome?
However well - intentioned this impulse might be, an ecumenism that proceeds on the basis
of forgetting
earlier periods
of church history is theologically suspect.
The subjects they teach each year are: Old Testament, New Testament, Book
of Mormon, and
Early church history.
Leigh E. Schmidt is assistant professor
of church history in the Theological and Graduate Schools
of Drew University and the author
of Holy Fairs: Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the
Early Modern Period.
Centuries
of honest textual criticism, archeology and
history are virtually unanimous in their agreement that two
of the Gospels are eye - witness accounts, two are commissioned investigations by the
early church and all
of the canonical Epistles were written by first - generation apostles.
Few things are uglier than a thoroughly irascible person, and it is clear why very
early in the
history of the
church anger came to be regarded as one
of the seven deadly vices.
In the
Churches of the Reformation the immediate result was, undeniably, an outburst
of religious spontaneity such as marks periods
of expansion and revival, comparable with prophetic movements in the
early Church and in the
history of
«This group seems not to know that there have been black members
of the
Church since our
earliest history, and there are many faithful gay members
of the
Church today.»
A battle has been joined that is reminiscent
of an
earlier episode in
church history.
I The
early Church father Tertullian asked a famous question, one that has been asked again and again in the
history of the
Church, and that I would like to ask again: «What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?»
The product
of a
church history of sex negative hysteria started by deeply disturbed
early church fathers bearing little to no basis in honest scriptural teaching.
Its
history goes back to the
earliest centuries
of the
church.
In the
early days
of church history it was a common baptismal practice for those entering the water to lay aside their old clothes, depicting their surrender
of the former life
of sin and death.
Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth - Century America by Elizabeth Clark University
of Pennsylvania, 576 pages, $ 69.95 If you wish... to understand German thought,» the German theologian August Tholuck wrote an American student in 1839, «I....
It is a sheer fact, undisputed by any who have knowledge
of what transpired in
early Christian
history, that the Christian
Church developed its patterns
of thought, its theology, through the constant interaction
of the biblical witness and the «non-biblical» environment in which the primitive Christian community found itself.
The first chapter gives a brief overview
of the
history of psychiatry, beginning in ancient Greece, describing how mental illness has been regarded and treated through the ages; along the way, it debunks the myth that the
early Church saw all mental illness as diabolic.
For most
of the
Church's
history (the
early Church, the
Church during medieval times, and the Reformation era), the Old Testament was read in this way — as a book about Christ and the
Church.
I was surprised because I am trained as a scholar
of the New Testament and
early Christianity, and for thirty years I have written extensively on the historical Jesus, the Gospels, the
early Christian movement, and the
history of the
church's first three hundred years.
In a word, just as the
earliest Christian community rested back firmly and surely on the historical reality
of Jesus, so there has never been a time in the subsequent
history of the
church, regardless
of how ideally Jesus may have been conceived, when a demonstration
of his merely mythical character would not have struck at the foundations
of its life.
In fact, however, as I have indicated, I do not think that the Synoptic traditions should be taken for the most part as factual
history, but rather as reflections, cast in narrative form,
of the theological thinking
of the
early Church about the Easter appearances and
of various current controversies about them.
He and Other remarkably popular visionary leaders caused the period
of the
early republic to become, according to historian Nathan Hatch, «the most centrifugal epoch in American
church history.»
Before the flourishing
of Bultmann's career, New Testament scholarship had been dominated by literary criticism, which attempted to uncover the secret
of how the texts were compiled; by investigation
of the Hellenistic background, especially the mystery religions surrounding the
early church, as part
of a sociological critique
of the
history of religion; and by excitement about the apocalyptic content
of the teaching
of Jesus as a first century Jew.
Ernst Troeltsch, writing at the turn
of the century, saw them at work in the
early church and watched them erupt now and again throughout
church history.
In the
history of the
early Christian
church, they believed that Jesus would return in «their» life time but he didn't.
Protestants should look at the
history of the
Church and see how far it has gotten away from
early Christianity and there isn't a need to create all these denominations.
The author believes that contemporary expressions
of civil religion in
churches and politics mark a new departure into apostasy, corrupting the more legitimate subordination
of politics to religion that typified
earlier periods in American
history.
He is the succesor to peter's seat to the leading
of the
Church that CHRIST himself founded look at the history of the early church, with all due respect do your research before posting false
Church that CHRIST himself founded look at the
history of the
early church, with all due respect do your research before posting false
church, with all due respect do your research before posting false things
However, between the debate in the
early church and the contemporary debate lies a long and tragic
history of estrangement and, in numerous instances,
of the
church's participation in persecution
of Jews.
There are more than 25,000 copies
of these gospels from very
early in the
church history.
European and American scholars reflected on model changes in Christianity in different periods
of its
history: the
early church and the patristic, medieval scholastic, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment periods.
At an
early stage in the
church's
history a process
of de-Judaization was set in motion — a process that through the centuries has deprived the
church of some
of the richest elements
of its Hebrew heritage.
Others which could be explained in detail are the testimony
of the
early church, the witness
of history and archaeology, and the evidence
of changed lives throughout the centuries, to name but a few.
(J.W.C. Ward, A
History of the
early Church, p. 99) In this period the
Church not only grew numerically, but also strengthened itself in its organization and power by creating a monarchical bishop who had the sole authority over the
Church and who really became the emperor
of the
Church.
An effort to analyze the authority
of the ministry as this was exercised and recognized in the
early and medieval
Church and in the centuries immediately after the Reformation would lead us deep into social
history and psychology, into theology and political science.
Reading the teachings
of Jesus and studying
early Church history shows - Christians were Socialists in the best possible way.
In the discourse itself (Luke 17:22 - 37), Jesus anticipates the
early church's perplexity over the nonappearance
of the supernatural Son
of man, the divine being who will come and usher in the final days at the end
of history.
In the face
of capitalistic globalization, disciples
of Jesus may find a better inspiration in Jesus himself and in the
early Church rather than in subsequent period
of Church history, when the
Church was compromised with political and socioeconomic power.
Read the
history of the BS mormon
church, especially J.smith's
early life.
Hans Lietzmann was teaching the
history of the
early church, and Adolf von Harnack, Karl Holl, and Reinhold Seeberg were in one way or another connected with theology.
This is immediately followed by the assertion that the
Church's position «is grounded in a proper view
of economics, true to the etymology
of the term, which emerged in ancient civilizations and in
early Christian
history to describe the arrangement
of a household — God's household, which is ordered and open to those who long to sit at the table which they helped set.»
One scholar believes that the reading
of 1 Thessalonians was an «event which contributed to the formation
of the Christian
church at Thessalonica.118 First Thessalonians is an example in
early church history where an act
of public reading «allowed the believers at Thessalonica to come into existence as the
church of God.
And I would say that one
of the great dangers is that in choosing an online community, we only have virtual friends and virtual communication without the depth
of relationships that marks Jesus, the
early Church and Christians throughout
history.
However, to indict Constantine and the
early historical Christianity in this way is at best simplistic, and in majority
of cases betrays much ignorance
of church factual
history.
In spite
of the diversity in the resurrection narratives there is one important common theme which C. F. Evans draws to our attention when he says, «The one element which the traditions, in all their variety, have in common is that the appearance
of the risen Lord issued in an explicit command to evangelize the world, yet the
early decades
of the
history of the
church, in so far as they are known to us, make it difficult to suppose that the apostles were aware
of any such command.»
The
church possesses the Holy Scriptures, which are the record
of the formative (and because they come from that
earliest age in one sense also can serve as normative) period
of the
church's
history.