Understandings of the Church

by Hinson, E. Glenn

• ISBN13: 9781597520362
• ISBN10: 1597520365
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-26
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

A diverse selection of newly translated texts illumine the various understandings of the church in early Christianity. Selections are taken from:1 ClementDidacheIgnatiusLetter of Pliny2 ClementJustinTrypho in JustinMartyrdom of PolycarpEpistle to DiognetusIrenaeusClement of AlexandriaTertullianOrigenCyprianEusebiusAugustine

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
An Orderly People: 1 Clement 37.1-38.2, 40.1-41.1, 42.1-5, 44.1-6	p. 19
The Gathering of a Scattered People: Didache 7, 9-15	p. 22
Nothing Without the Bishop Ignatius: Ephesians 4.1-6.2, Magnesians 6.1-7.2, Smyrnaeans 7.1-9.1	p. 25
A Secret Society: Letter of Pliny to the Emperor Trajan 7	p. 28
The Preexistent Church: 2 Clement 14.1-5	p. 29
An Enlightened People: Justin 1 Apology 61, 65-67	p. 30
A Jewish Puzzlement: Trypho in Justin Dialogue with Trypho 10	p. 33
Israel Under a New Covenant: Justin Dialogue 119-120	p. 34
The Church of the Martyrs: Martyrdom of Polycarp 16.2-18.3	p. 36
Soul for the World: Epistle to Diognetus 5.1-6.10	p. 38
The Church as the Bank of Apostolic Truth: Irenaeus Against Heresies 3.3.1, 3.4.1-2, 3.24.1, 4.26.2	p. 40
The Church of Martyrs: Irenaeus Against Heresies 4.53.1-55.1	p. 44
The Church as the "Born Again" Children of God: Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Greeks 4.59.2-3; 9.82.4-7, 88.2-3 The Instructor 1.6.26.1, 1.6.30.1-31.2, 1.6.42.1-43.1	p. 46
The Church "Gnostically" Conceived: Clement of Alexandria Miscellanies 6.13.2	p. 50
A Third Race?: Tertullian To the Nations 1.8.1, 9-13	p. 51
A Distinctive People: Tertullian Apology 39	p. 52
The Church of Apostolic Tradition: Tertullian Prescription for Heretics 20, 32, 36, 41	p. 56
The Montanist Church: Tertullian On Purity 21.7-17 Against Marcion 5.15.5-6	p. 60
The Church as Superior to All Things Pagan: Origen Against Celsus 3.29-30, 51; 8.74-75	p. 63
The Double Church: Origen On Prayer 31.5-6	p. 67
The Church in the Bishops: Cyprian On the Unity of the Church	p. 69
Corpus Christianum: Eusebius The Life of Constantine 3.1.1-3.3.3; 3.11-12; 4.24	p. 87
Corpus Permixtum: Augustine On Baptism Book 1	p. 91
Bibliography	p. 115
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