The Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament

The Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament
Author: Clayton N. Jefford
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2006-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441241779

The apostolic fathers were authors of nonbiblical church writings of the first and early second centuries. These works are important because their authors, Clement I, Hermas, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, and the author of the Epistle of Barnabas, were contemporaries of the biblical writers. Expressing pastoral concern, their writings are similar in style to the New Testament. Some of their writings, in fact, were venerated as Scripture before the official canon was decided. The Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament provides a comparison of the apostolic fathers and the New Testament that is at once comprehensive and accessible. What genres (letters, miracle stories, etc.) appear in what ways? What apostolic fathers seem to reflect which passages in the New Testament? What themes appear in both bodies of literature? How did the apostolic fathers adopt and adapt images from the New Testament? How do the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers contribute to our understanding of how early Christians understood themselves in relation to the mother faith of Judaism? Any attempt to compare the Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament faces the difficulty that each set of writings represents diverse authors and historical contexts within the early church. As a result, scholars who work in the field have typically restricted their research to individual authors and writings. Thus, it has been difficult to come to any general observations about the larger corpus. After carefully examining images, themes, and concepts found in the New Testament and the apostolic fathers, Jefford posits some general observations and insights about the beliefs of the early church.

The Apostolic Fathers in English

The Apostolic Fathers in English
Author: Michael W. Holmes
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2006-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1585585009

The Apostolic Fathers is an important collection of writings revered by early Christians but not included in the final canon of the New Testament. Here a leading expert on these texts offers an authoritative contemporary translation, in the tradition of the magisterial Lightfoot version but thoroughly up-to-date. The third edition features numerous changes, including carefully revised translations and a new, more user-friendly design. The introduction, notes, and bibliographies have been freshly revised as well.

The Apostolic Fathers

The Apostolic Fathers
Author: Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group (MI)
Total Pages: 640
Release: 1992
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The Apostolic Fathers

The Apostolic Fathers
Author: Simon Tugwell
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-03
Genre: Apostolic Fathers
ISBN: 9780826457714

A member of the Dominican Order guides readers carefully and intelligently through the major figures and debates of this key age in the emergence and spread of Christianity.

The Apostolic Fathers

The Apostolic Fathers
Author: Michael W. Holmes
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 832
Release: 2007-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 080103468X

A contemporary version of important early Christian texts that are not included in the New Testament. The translation, Greek texts, introduction, notes, and bibliographies are freshly revised.

Early Christian Writings

Early Christian Writings
Author:
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1987-04-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0141915307

The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of whom were probably disciples of the Apostles, they provide a first-hand account of the early Church and outline a form of early Christianity still drawing on the theology and traditions of its parent religion, Judaism. Included here are the first Epistle of Bishop Clement of Rome, an impassioned plea for harmony; The Epistle of Polycarp; The Epistle of Barnabas; The Didache; and the Seven Epistles written by Ignatius of Antioch - among them his moving appeal to the Romans that they grant him a martyr's death.

The New Testament: A Very Short Introduction

The New Testament: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Luke Timothy Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2010-04-22
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0199735700

A brief yet essential introduction to the New Testament that chronicles the real people-- and historical and literary movements--that created it.

THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS

THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS
Author: Kirsopp Lake
Publisher: Christian Publishing House
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The Apostolic Fathers were core Christian theologians among the Church Fathers who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D., who are believed to have personally known some of the Twelve Apostles or to have been significantly influenced by them. Their writings, though widely circulated in Early Christianity, were not included in the canon of the New Testament. Many of the writings derive from the same time period and geographical location as other works of early Christian literature, which came to be part of the New Testament. Some of the writings found among the Apostolic Fathers appear to have been as highly regarded as some of the writings which became the New Testament. These writers include Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Polycarp, Hermas, Barnabas, Papias, and the anonymous authors of the Didachē (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles), Letter to Diognetus, Letter of Barnabas, and the Martyrdom of Polycarp. Not everything written by the Apostolic Fathers is considered to be equally valuable theologically, but taken as a whole, their writings are more valuable historically than any other Christian literature outside the New Testament. They provide a bridge between it and the more fully developed Christianity of the late 2nd century.

The Apostolic Fathers

The Apostolic Fathers
Author: Wilhelm Pratscher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The Apostolic Fathers represents the best and latest in German-language scholarship on the Apostolic Fathers--now available in this exclusive English edition. Crafted by an expert team of scholars, The Apostolic Fathers offers introductions to the works comprising this early Christian corpus, fully equipped with cutting-edge discussion of important topics including theological profiles, intertextuality, intellectual milieus, and anti-Jewish polemics. The foreword by Wilhelm Pratscher and closing chapter by Jörg Ulrich cap off this learned handling of the Fathers, locating them within the history of scholarship, even while pointing the way for new avenues of study.

Paul and the Anatomy of Apostolic Authority

Paul and the Anatomy of Apostolic Authority
Author: John Howard Schutz
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2007-04-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1611644968

John Howard Schutz's milestone analysis of Paul's authority shaped a generation of thought about Paul. This insightful work continues to be relevant to Pauline scholarship. The New Testament Library offers authoritative commentary on every book and major aspect of the New Testament, as well as classic volumes of scholarship. The commentaries in this series provide fresh translations based on the best available ancient manuscripts, offer critical portrayals of the historical world in which the books were created, pay careful attention to their literary design, and present a theologically perceptive exposition of the text.