Ignatius of Antioch (died c. 115) is one of the Apostolic Fathers
of the Christian Church. In his letters to other churches he
re-interpreted church order, the Eucharist and martyrdom against
the backcloth of the Second Sophistic in Asia minor by using the
cultural material of a pagan society. He so formed the idea and
theology of the office of a bishop in the Christian church. This
book is an account of the circumstances and the cultural context in
which Ignatius constructed what became the historic church order of
Christendom.
Allen Brent defends the authenticity of the Ignatian letters by
showing how the circumstances of Ignatius' condemnation at Antioch
and departure for Rome fits well with what we can reconstruct of
the internal situation in the Church of Antioch in Syria at the end
of the first century. Ignatius is presented as a controversial
figure arising in the context of a church at war with itself.
Ignatius constructs out of the conflicting models of church order
available to him one founded on a single bishop that he commends to
Christian communities through which he passes in chains as a
condemned martyr prisoner.
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