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Faith of the Apostles — Day of Pentecost — Gospel first preached to Jews — Gentile converts — Council at Jerusalem — Two orders of ministers besides the college of Apostles — St. James — St. Paul at Athens and Rome — Pastoral epistles — Question whether the Jewish system would continue — decided by destruction of Jerusalem ...
Corinth (/ ˈ k ɒr ɪ n θ / KORR-inth; Ancient Greek: Κόρινθος Kórinthos; Doric Greek: Ϙόρινθος Qórinthos; Latin: Corinthus) was a city-state on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnese peninsula to the mainland of Greece, roughly halfway between Athens and Sparta.
It is a pastoral manual dealing with Christian lessons, rituals, and Church organization, parts of which may have constituted the first written catechism, "that reveals more about how Jewish-Christians saw themselves and how they adapted their Judaism for Gentiles than any other book in the Christian Scriptures." [213]
Thus the Edessan church traced its origin to the Apostolic Age (which may account for its rapid growth), and Christianity even became the state religion for a time. The Church of the East had its inception at a very early date in the buffer zone between the Parthian and Roman Empires in Upper Mesopotamia, known as the Assyrian Church of the ...
The 2nd-century The Shepherd of Hermas was popular in the early church and was even considered scriptural by some of the Church Fathers such as Irenaeus [37] and Tertullian. It was written in Rome in Koine Greek. The Shepherd had great authority in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. The work comprises five visions, 12 mandates, and 10 parables.
Aristides of Athens, apologist ~120; Justin Martyr, church father ~165; Melito of Sardis, bishop of Sardis, ~180; Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon, disciple of Polycarp, apologist 180~202; Origen of Alexandria, 185~254, Neoplatonist, controversial during his lifetime, posthumously condemned at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553
Didache manuscript. The Didache (/ ˈ d ɪ d ə k eɪ,-k i /; Ancient Greek: Διδαχή, romanized: Didakhé, lit. 'Teaching'), [1] also known as The Lord's Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations (Διδαχὴ Κυρίου διὰ τῶν δώδεκα ἀποστόλων τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, Didachḕ Kyríou dià tō̂n dṓdeka apostólōn toîs éthnesin), is a brief ...
The main collections of church orders are the following: [6] the Apostolic Constitutions (about 380 AD, Syria) is a collection of eight books depending mainly from the Didascalia Apostolorum (books 1–6), from the Didache (book 7) and from the Apostolic Tradition (book 8). The seventh and eighth books of the Apostolic Constitutions include so ...