The Acts of the Apostles: What Really Happened in the Earliest Days of the Church – By Gerd LüdemannS. marcescenslipasesecretionmutantNalobin AV, Kalinin MG.doi:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2008.00324_29.xWilliam Sanger CampbellJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Religious Studies Review...
Because Peter was made the foundation of the Church, he had a special place or primacy among the apostles. The early Church Fathers clearly recognized this.
As the following quotations illustrate, the early Church Fathers recognized all three offices and regarded them as essential to the Church’s structure. Especially significant are the letters of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, who traveled from his home city to Rome, where he was executed around A....
It is unfortunate that some anarchists have become distracted by the fuzzy term "hierarchy," and attempt to explain anarchist ideas on that unsound basis. Early anarchists rarely used the term "hierarchy," and when they did they were talking about government (or sometimes church) hierarchy, not...
Joe: Well, that was really quite an eyeopening experience because, so that was the first fieldwork I did. And I just, my first trip, I flew in on a missionary plane and I started going from village to village by dugout canoe. And I was studying people’s decision-making and ...
What was the last live performance you saw? View all responses A disciple-developing church is much more powerful than an audience-attracting church. Yet, disciple-developing churches are extremely rare. Too many Christians want self-gratification more than they want Christ’s inner transformation. ...
In the early Christian Church, there was a strong emphasis on the veneration of martyrs who had suffered and died for their faith. These martyrs were seen as exemplary models of Christian virtue, and their graves or burial places became sites of pilgrimage and veneration. The anniversary of a...
The English word“myth”comes from the Greek μύθος meaning a story.Today we are so used to a world in which the printed or electronic word is easily available that it is easy to forget that in more ancient civilizations writing was a specialized skill,rather like that of a callig...
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“There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always.” (Acts 10:1-2 NKJV) Cornelius became convinced of...