The Dawn Of Christianity Or Studies Of The Apostolic Church Classic Reprint

Author : James Vernon Bartlet
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260265173
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book The Apostolic Age written by James Vernon Bartlet and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-04 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Apostolic Age: Its Life, Doctrine, Worship and Polity HE late appearance of this volume in the series to which it belongs, calls for a word of explanation. It is scarcely two years since the death of Bishop A. C. Coxe, of Western New York, who had already put his hand to the work, led to the task being transferred to the present writer. Under these circumstances he hopes that the original sub scribers will not grudge the time takeri in carrying through, amid other duties, the needful studies and reducing the results to something like unity. How far this volume may deserve its place in a series of popular monographs, its author is hardly able to judge. But he has at any rate tried to avoid abstract or artificial grouping, and to describe the concrete life of the Apostolic Age as it manifested itself, now here, now there, at the points of greatest activity. In this way the emphasis and perspective of the facts, whether of the Church's constitution, fundamental polity, doctrine, worship, or social and spiritual life, seem to have the best chance of tell ing on the mind directly and in their own right. Only in three chapters, at the end has a formal at tempt been made to systematize some of the facts already presented, for the most part, in their own proper contexts. For the purposes of the present series the Apos tolic Age is taken as ending only with the close of the first century. It covers, that is, two full gener ations of the Church's opening life; during which, as it is believed, one apostle at least, John the son of Zebedee, perpetuated the memories of the original circle of the Founder's disciples Here already there is a blending of Apostolic and sub-apos tolic Christianity - to use the terms in their more limited senses - and a corresponding overlapping of canonical and non-canonical Christian literature. In the text, which may generally be read with only quite occasional use of footnotes (added mainly for the sake of the studious), the author has aimed at writing pure history, without staying to point any far-reaching moral. But a preface is perhaps a fit place in which to throw out a few hints to those nu familiar with the problems involved in a history of the Apostolic Age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.