The Early Years of Christianity

Pressense, E De

The Early Years of Christianity A Comphrehensive History of the First Three Centuries of the Christian Church:- 4 Vol.Set - New Delhi Christian World Imprints 2018 - 536p - Christian Classics Revived; 201800ENGGPM1 .

includes index and biblioraphy

Vol. 1. The apostolic Age First century - Book 1. Commencement of the christian Church ....23 2. First internal Conflict, and first extension of the church beyond Jerusalem ................54 3. Conversion of paul. His first mission .................95 4. The two conferences at Jerusalem, and the dispute at antioch................125 First century -Book Second 1. Mission of the church upto the captivity of St. Paul ................142 2. Mission and persecutions of the church from the captivity of St. paul to his death and that of st. Peter.........................189 3. Various forms of christian doctrine in the second period of the apostolic age ............................................233 4. The state of the chucrhs during this period . first symptoms of heresy ........299 5. constitution of the churches during this period ..............................331 6. Worship and the christian life ..........361 First Century- book third 1. The fall of Jerusalem and its consequences ...........399 2. St. John, the apostle and prophet .............415 3. The doctrine of St. John .....................443 4. The churches in the time of st. John ............................464 Vol. 2. The Martyrs and apologists Book First 1. The conquest of the church .............43 2. General character of the persecutions of the second and third centuries..............67 3. The church and the empire, from A.D 98 to A. D 190...................105 4. The church of the empire, from the commencement of the Third century to constantine ......170 Book Second The fathers of the church in the second and third centuries 1. The fathers of the church in the second century ...................236 2. the fathers of the eastern church, from the end of the secind century to the time of constantine ............340 3. The fathers of the western church, from commodus to constantine ................414 Book Third The attack and defence of christianity in the domain of controversy 1. The attack.................510 2. The defence or apology of the christian faith ...................................526 Vol. 3. Heresy and christian Doctrine Book First Heresy 1. The general charachterestics of Gnosticism ...........1 The gnostics of the first school. Valentinus and his Followers .....22 The Gnostics of the Second school. The ophites marcion .......39 2. Manichaeism ........51 3. Judaising heresy in the Second and third centuries .........74 5. Montanism ....101 5. The first unitarians .......125 6. The apocryphal Literature of the Second and third centuries, and its influence upon the formation of oral Tradition ...151 Second Book . The development of christian doctrine in the Second and third Centuries 1. General Consideration ..193 2. The greco-asiatic school...221 3. The theology of the Alexandrine school clement of alexandria .......255 4. Continuation of the Alexandrine school. the System of Origen....296 5. Continuation of the Alexandrine school. The disciples of origen .....356 6. The greco-roman School...374 7. The school of Carthage........419 Vol. 4. Life & practice in the Early Church Book 1. Ecclesiastical Life in the Second and third Centuries 1. Admission of Converts into the Church- schools of Cathechumens- baptism ....1 2. Organisation of authority in the local Churches to the close of the Second century ......38 3. Discipline in the Local Church at the beginning of the Third Century ...........76 4. Mutual Relations of the churches at the Commencement of the Third century .............85 5. The Ecclesiastical Crisis of the Third Century - Its general features - reaches its climax at alexandria ........100 6. The crisis in Rome ...........119 7. The ecclesiastical Crisis in the time of Cyprian ..............207 Book II Private and public worship in the Churches of the second and third centuries 1. First changes in primitive worship ..........202 2. worship in the home .........218 The Apostolic Age.-- The Martyrs and Apologists.-- Heresy and Christian Doctrine.-- Life & Practice in the Early Church. V1. V2. V3. V4.

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Early Church
Primitive
Church History

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