EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN THE FIRST CENTURY: Jesus' Witnesses to the Ends of the Earth

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Christian Publishing House, Jul 2, 2017 - Religion - 222 pages

 EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN THE FIRST CENTURY will give its readers a thrilling account of first-century Christianity. When and how did they come to be called Christians? Who are all obligated to be Christian evangelists? In what way did Jesus set the example for our evangelism? What is the Kingdom of God? What was their worship like and why were they called the Truth and the Way? How did 120 disciples at Pentecost grow to over one million within 70-80-years? What was meant by their witness to the ends of the earth? How did Christianity in its infancy function to accomplish all it did? How was it structured?

How were the early Christians, not of the world? How were they affected by persecution? How were they not to love the world, in what sense? What divisions were there in the second and third centuries? Who were the Gnostics? These questions will be answered, as well as a short overview of the division that grew out of the second and third centuries, pre-reformation, the reformation, and a summary of Catholicism and Protestantism. After a lengthy introduction to First-Century Christianity, there is a chapter on the Holy Spirit in the First Century and Today, followed by sixteen chapters that cover the most prominent Christians from the second to fourth centuries, as well as a chapter on Constantine the Great.

 

Contents

Preface
13
The Earliest Followers of Jesus
55
Worship and Doctrine in the First Century
79
Structure and Function of the Early Church
101
Persecution and Martyrdom in the First
116
Century
129
The Rise of Apostasy in the First Century
195
Faithful
207
Diatessaron
314
from the Apostolic Faith
322
and Shapers of Christian Doctrine
336
Controversialist
345
Faith
352
New Era for the Faith
359
The Rise of Fifth Century Catholicism
375
Original Christian Teachings
405

World
274
Second Century Christian Apologists
307
6th16th Century C E Catholicism Badly
411
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EDWARD D. ANDREWS (AS in Criminal Justice, BS in Religion, MA in Biblical Studies, and MDiv in Theology) is CEO and President of Christian Publishing House. He has authored fifty-nine books and coauthored and updated and expanded five books, as well as over 200 articles. Andrews is the Chief Translator of the Updated American Standard Version.

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