Early Christianity
We ought to hold firmly and defend this unity, especially we bishops who preside over the church, so that we may prove also that ...
against a background of competition. Just before he composed On the Unity of the Catholic Church, Christians (along with the res ...
Some churches also have a figure in overall authority, such as the pope for Roman Catholics, or the ecumenical patriarch for the ...
‘overseer’ or ‘supervisor’; a presbuteroswas an ‘elder’; and a diakonoswas a ‘server’ (from the Greek verb diakein, ‘to serve’). ...
Two of the deutero-Pauline pastoral epistles (1 TimothyandTitus), moreover, describe that authority in terms of the ancient hous ...
in the first documents we possess from the pens of Christian bishops, such as the letters of Ignatius of Antioch (Kee 1995). It ...
church ought to be united, and, on the other hand, the practical reality that the various leaders of individual congregations of ...
The developments outlined above point to similar experi- ences in different churches across the Roman empire. It is clear, howev ...
(‘country-bishops’) in rural districts (Mitchell 1993: II, 70–1). In the latter case, this apparently organic development from t ...
The reasons for this variety are perhaps to be sought in the diverse traditions about Jesus that circulated in the early Christi ...
divergent meanings of the Eucharist, at least in terms of how it was viewed in relation to the narrative of Jesus’ ministry. Ort ...
to call themselves Christians redefined their relationship with Jewish law and the traditions of ancient Israel, and advocated n ...
Such speculations (and later ones too, of course: differences of opinion did not come to a halt with Constantine!) came to be re ...
the Latin translation of the work), seems originally to have been called On the Detection and Refutation of the Knowledge (gno ̄ ...
resurrection. Other early Christians sought to resolve the debate about the relationship between Jesus Christ and God by asserti ...
have been deemed canonical by the church (and only after long debate: p. 67), but many others existed in antiquity (see p. 75). ...
of Christianity with different intellectual and religious traditions. Indeed, the maintenance of orthodoxy involved discerning b ...
The history of early Christianity, then, is as much a complex story of the spread of competing opinions on the nature of the tru ...
back to apostolic times (see p. 157). While Irenaeus used the list of bishops of Rome as a way of guaranteeing the doctrinal tru ...
Their existence, and their implications for the unity of early Christianity, will be the focus of this chapter’s case study. Cas ...
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