The Early Church at Work and Worship

Volume 2: Catechesis, Baptism, Eschatology, and Martyrdom
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-227-17490-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: James Clarke and Co Ltd

This is the second volume of Ferguson's collected essays, and includes some of his most memorable work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferguson, Everett

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Baptism
11 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

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