Early Christian Writings
by Maxwell Staniforth (Translator), Andrew Louth (Revised by)
ISBN-10: 0140444750
ISBN-13: 9780140444759
$16.00
Book Specs
UK-B Format Paperback
Penguin Classics
Published on
Sep 1, 1987
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
7.74x5.04x0.54 Inches
Weight
0.35 Pounds
About the Book
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.