History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100.

Christ, and resolves it into a purely spiritual, though long continued manifestation from heaven. Nevertheless he makes the stro ...

Dr. Schenkel, of Heidelberg, who in his Charakterbild Jesu (third ed. 1864, pp. 231 sqq.) had adopted the vision-theory in its h ...

and the lacunae in the Acts supplied, especially in regard to the closing labors and death of Peter and Paul. The Acts bear on t ...

R. A. Lipsius: Die apokryph Apostel geschichten und Apostel legenden. Leipz. 1883 sq. 2 vols. Jewish sources: Philo and Josephu ...

A. P. Stanley (Dean of Westminster): Sermons and Essays on the Apostolic Age. Oxford, 1847. 3d ed. 1874. *Heinrich W. J. Thiersc ...

belong to the Apostolic age; the last two to the next. The work of a sceptical outsider, of brilliant genius, eloquence, and sec ...

Dan. Schenkel (Prof. in Heidelberg): Das Christusbild der Apostel und der nachapostolischen Zeit. Leipz. 1879. Comp. the review ...

residence and labors of John, which made themselves felt during the second century through Polycarp and Irenaeus. Samaria, Damas ...

documents between the martyrdom of Peter and Paul and the death of John, and again between the death of John and the age of Just ...

The life of Christ is the divine-human fountainhead of the Christian religion; the apostolic age is the fountainhead of the Chri ...

expectations, Peter and John by their long and successful labors, James the Elder by drinking early the bitter cup of his Master ...

melancholic, introverted, reserved, burning within of love to Christ and hatred of Antichrist. Peter’s Epistles are full of swee ...

again most prominent in the memory of the church. He is chosen by the Roman communion as its special patron saint and as the fir ...

in their writings as the perfect image of God, as the Saviour from sin and death, as the Giver of eternal life, as the divine ha ...

The verbal or textual criticism has for its object to restore as far as possible the original text of the Greek Testament from t ...

Germany, and it is her high honor, has searched out the facts and exhibited them. And without knowledge of the facts, no clearne ...

(Tendenzschriften), which give us not history pure and simple, but adjust it to a doctrinal and practical aim in the interest of ...

History never repeats itself, yet the same laws and tendencies reappear in ever-changing forms. This modern criticism is a remar ...

in which they appeared to him and must have appeared to him from the time and circumstances under which he wrote. He has not, in ...

century after the crucifixion, when the older apostles and most of the principal eye-witnesses of the life of Christ were still ...