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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This is the second volume of Ferguson's collected essays, and
includes some of his most memorable work.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Part of a six-volume set that should provide an introduction to key
areas of research and debate on the early history of Christianity,
this book focuses on the affect early Christianity had on people's
lives.
Product Note: 2 Volume Set
Church History, Volume One offers a unique contextual view of how
the Christian church spread and grew from its development in the
days of Jesus to the years leading up to the Reformation. Looking
closely at the integral link between the history of the world and
that of the church, Church History paints a portrait of God's
people within its setting of times, cultures, and events that both
influenced and were influenced by the church. FEATURES: Maps,
charts, and illustrations spanning the time from the first through
the thirteenth centuries. Overviews of the Roman, Greek, and Jewish
worlds and how they developed or declined. Insights into the
church's relationship to the Roman Empire, with glimpses into pagan
attitudes toward Christians. Explanations of the role of art,
architecture, literature, and philosophy-both sacred and secular-in
the Church. Details on the major theological controversies of the
periods. Each chapter also contains callout passages from Scripture
to assist in understanding the narrative of the Church, even to the
present day, as part of the greater narrative of the Bible.
AUTHOR'S PERSPECTIVE: Scholar and writer Everett Ferguson wrote
this history of the church from the perspective that such a history
is the story of the greatest movement and community the world has
known. It's a human story of a divinely called people who wanted to
live by a divine revelation. It's a story of how they succeeded and
how they failed or fell short of their calling. From the Apostle
Paul to the apologists and martyrs of the second century to Martin
Luther, the historical figures detailed are people who have
struggled with the meaning of the greatest event in history-the
coming of the Son of God-and with their role in that event and in
the lives of God's people.
Here is an award-winning, new translation that brings to light
Gregory's complex identity as an early mystic. Gregory (c. 332-395)
was one of the Greek Cappadocian Fathers, along with St. Basil the
Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen.
Many recognise Everett Ferguson as the definitive voice on early
Christianity, patristic writing and ecclesiology. The Early Church
at Work and Worship is a challenging collection, broad in scope and
formidable in depth. This is the first volume of Ferguson's
collected essays, and includes some of his most memorable work,
especially on "laying on of hands". Practices of Ordination and
attitudes to religious schism in antiquity are analysed by the
scholar in this collection, which not only includes articles and
publications from various sources, but also previously unpublished
material.
This book employs a methodology that I have found helpful in
dealing with other topics. This procedure is to assemble the New
Testament texts on the topic and interpret them, then check this
interpretation against usage in early Christian literature outside
the New Testament, and finally to examine the doctrinal
considerations to determine if the interpretation rests on solid
biblical theology. Rather than gathering quotations from secondary
literature, my approach is to read the source documents in the
original and present the texts in their context. At the time of
first edition of the book, mine was the fullest collection of
historical statements on early church music readily available.
Other studies since that time are largely supportive of the
historical facts presented in my work, even if the authors do not
consider the evidence normative for today. My conclusion is that
the practice of unaccompanied congregational singing rests on good
biblical, historical and doctrinal grounds.
The Church of Christ develops the affirmation that Christ is not
complete without his people. It grounds ecclesiology in Christology
and soteriology. Beginning with the Old Testament basis of the New
Testament teaching about the church, the book gives a consistent
correlation of Christ with the church's nature, membership,
assemblies, ministry, and life. This is not a historical study but
a doctrinal study. The aim is to present a biblical theology of the
church. A doctrinal approach, however, does not mean a doctrinal
scheme is imposed on the text; rather, the effort is to let the
doctrinal teaching arise out of the text itself. The systematic
treatment of the topics traditionally covered in studies of the
doctrine of the church are here brought together in relationship to
Christ, who is seen as providing the nature of the church and of
its membership and as providing not only the example for the church
but also a living continuation of himself in its worship, polity,
and ethics. The "Today" in the subtitle does not imply a tailoring
of biblical ecclesiology to the interests of the present, but is
meant to emphasize that biblical ecclesiology is viable today; it
is also an acknowledgment that the questions addressed are in part
shaped by contemporary as well as historical issues in
ecclesiology. In light of these considerations, Ferguson unveils a
comprehensive model of the church that is both biblically centered
and relevant to today's world.
This magisterial volume is a comprehensive survey of the doctrine
and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christian
history, arranged geographically within chronological periods.
Baptism in the Early Church covers the antecedents to Christian
baptism and traces the history of Christian doctrine and practice
from the New Testament through the writings of the church fathers
of the fourth and fifth centuries. The book deals primarily with
the literary sources, though it also gives attention to depictions
of baptism (primarily of Jesus) in various art forms and to the
surviving baptismal fonts. Ferguson's thorough study points to the
central importance of baptism in the early church. Many blessings
were attributed to baptism, but the two earliest and most
consistently mentioned are forgiveness of sins and the reception of
the Holy Spirit; faith and repentance were necessary in order to
receive these benefits. Jewish immersion rites, the practice of
John the Baptist, the meaning of the words used for baptism, the
literary descriptions, and the material remains argue that full
immersion was the normal practice, and the evidence from art is
consistent with this interpretation. Containing nearly everything
currently known about the early Christian ritual of baptism, with
extensive citations to the primary and secondary literature,
Ferguson's Baptism in the Early Church is destined to be a standard
reference work.
Ferguson's authoritative students' introduction to the world of the
early church has now been revised and expanded with new discussions
of first-century social life, of Gnosticism, and of the Dead Sea
Scrolls and other Jewish literature'. Each section is clearly
structured with its own bibliography. Arranged thematically,
chapters discuss the political background (looking at the political
history of the Near East, Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic
kingdoms and Rome), society and culture (including the Roman
military, social classes, slavery, relationships, morality,
economy, entertainment, literature, art and architecture, clubs and
associations), Hellenistic-Roman religions (cults, imperial cults,
personal religions, Greek and eastern mysteries), Hellenistic-Roman
philosophies, Judaism and Christianity.
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Philip LeMasters; Foreword by Everett Ferguson
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