The early church at work and worship. Volume 2, Catechesis, baptism, eschatology, and martyrdom / Everett Ferguson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : James Clarke & Co., 2014Description: 1 online resource (xii, 302 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780227903759
- 0227903757
- Catechesis, baptism, eschatology, and martyrdom
- Catechetics -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
- Baptism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
- Eschatology -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
- Martyrdom -- Christianity -- History
- RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- General
- RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History
- Baptism -- Early church
- Catechetics -- Early church
- Eschatology -- History of doctrines -- Early church
- Martyrdom -- Christianity
- 30-600
- 230.11 23
- BR165
Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Jstor, viewed June 28, 2018).
This is the second volume of Ferguson's collected essays, and includes some of his most memorable work.
Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Irenaeus' Proof of the Apostolic Preaching and Early Catechetical Instruction; 2. Catechesis and Initiation; 3. Christian and Jewish Baptism according to the Epistle of Barnabas; 4. Baptism according to Origen; 5. The Doctrine of Baptism in Gregory of Nyssa's Oratio Catechetica; 6. Exhortations to Baptism in the Cappadocians; 7. Basil's Protreptic to Baptism; 8. Preaching at Epiphany: Gregory of Nyssa and John Chrysostom on Baptism and the Church; 9. Spiritual Circumcision in Early Christianity.
10. Inscriptions and the Origin of Infant Baptism11. The Disgrace and the Glory: A Jewish Motif in Early Christianity; 12. The Kingdom of God in Early Patristic Literature; 13. Was Barnabas a Chiliast? An Example of Hellenistic Number Symbolism in Barnabas and Clement of Alexandria; 14. Millennial and Amillennial Expectations in Christian Eschatology: Ancient and Medieval Views; 15. Number Symbolism in the Ancient World; 16. Divine Pedagogy: Origen's Use of the Imagery of Education; 17. Early Christian Martyrdom and Civil Disobedience; Bibliography; Back cover.
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