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The Apostolic Fathers Commentary Series aims to complement the study of early Christianity through historical, literary, and theological readings of the Apostolic Fathers. Writers of the AFCS volumes seek to be mindful of critical scholarship while commenting on a final-form text. Shawn J. Wilhite's commentary on the Didache includes a brief introduction to the Didache, the use of Scripture by the Didachist, and the theology of the Didache. The commentary...
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Christian Writing Decoded provides the reader with a detailed history and analysis of the most important Christian writings.
The Didache was rediscovered in the Monastery of the Holy Sepulcher in Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) in 1873 by the Metropolitan Philotheos Byrennios, who would later become the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Nicomedia (Izmit, Turkey).
This manuscript is the sole extant copy of the complete work in Greek and was written...
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Most Christians believe that everything about Jesus and the early church can be found in their New Testament. In recent years, however, the discovery of the Gospel of Thomas and the reconstruction of the Q-Gospel have led scholars to recognize that some very early materials were left out. Now, due to the pioneering efforts of Dr. Aaron Milavec, the most decisive document of them all, namely, the Didache (Did-ah-Kay), has come to light. Milavec has...
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The Letter to the Corinthians by Clement of Rome and the Didache are two of the most important documents from the earliest days of Christianity. Here we stand at the very fount of Christian teaching outside the New Testament. Here we stand at the very fount of Christian teaching outside the New Testament. Clement's letter and the Didache reveal how Christians were implementing and living out the faith taught by Jesus and passed on by the twelve apostles....
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How did the first Christians practice their faith? The Didache, an early handbook of an anonymous Christian community, "is the most important book you've never heard of." It spells out a way of life for Jesus-followers, including how to love one another, how to practice the Eucharist, and how to take in wandering prophets. Likely written before many of the New Testament books, this little-known text can enlighten the way that Christians are church,...
6) The Two Ways: The Early Christian Vision of Discipleship from the Didache and the Shepherd of Hermas
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How did earliest Christians receive and understand the teaching of Jesus and the apostles? These writings, among the earliest used in training new disciples, show a clear, vibrant, practical faith concerned with all aspects of discipleship in daily life-vocation, morality, family life, social justice, the sacraments, prophesy, citizenship, and leadership. For the most part, these writings have remained buried in academia, analyzed by scholars but...
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"The ... Didache Bible presents commentaries on every book of the Bible that are based primarily on the Catechism of the Catholic Church. These commentaries also reference where various partsvof Sacred Scripture are explained more fully in the Catechism. Additionally, the Didache Bible includes apologetical explanations, which expound on the teaching of the Church on current issues ..."--Preface.
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Reading the Early Church Fathers introduces the reader to the primary sources of Church history, with commentary that will help the reader make sense of the theological/Christological trajectory that led the Church from the New Testament era, through the apologists, to the development of the major doctrines of the Church. Papandrea's treatment of the early Church fathers is unique in that he situates his discussion against the social and cultural...
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The writings that make up the New Testament stand at the very foundation of Christianity. But while Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and the other books of the New Testament are known to almost everyone, the writings that Christians produced in the decades that followed these earliest compositions remain shrouded in virtual anonymity. Who were the Apostolic Fathers? Why were they given that name? And what windows into the shaping of Christianity's canon,...
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The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the world's history, but also one of the most enigmatic and little understood, shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. With a forensic, brilliant re-examination of all the key surviving texts of early Christianity, Geza Vermes illuminates the origins of a faith and traces the evolution of the figure of Jesus from the man he was - a prophet fully recognisable...
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"Wedded priests... the ritual of circumcision... women as religious leaders. These topics elicit strong feelings and opinions within the modern Christian world. Ironically, early followers of the faith struggled with these very same issues. Examining and understanding the perspectives of early Christianity can provide new insights into the challenges that believers continue to face today. Early Christianity drew its doctrine from a variety of sources--personal...
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Twenty-four lectures (30 min. ea.).
These lectures explore a collection of writings produced by 10 (or 11) Apostolic Fathers living in the decades after the books of the New Testament were produced. Their writings give important insights into how Christianity was developing in its earliest stages, as it moved away from its inauspicious beginnings toward becoming a major world religion.
19) The vineyard
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Vineyard winery is blessed with sun, soil... and sacrificial killings. Four per year, to be exact, in order to sate the great god of wine and revelry, Dionysus. For decades these murders were done by patriarch Didache Vines, but it all changed when he fell victim to a horrible accident leaving him paralyzed. Now, the sacrificial duties have fallen to wife and matriarch, Maranatha Vines. With harvest season fast approaching and the family short of...
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