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Excerpt from The Apostolic Age in the Light of Modern Criticism Those who are familiar with the literature of the subject will recognize the various sources from which suggestion and guidance have been de rived; it has not seemed desirable to make ac knowledgments in detail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Post-Apostolic Age The demand for the series of volumes of which this is one is an interesting witness to an interesting and significant situation. Church histories have been hitherto of chief if not of exclusive interest to scholars; and even within this narrow circle the demand for merely ecclesiastical histories has been narrower still. But if our age has brought nothing else with it, it has brought an instinct of historic inquiry which has, happily, largely freed itself from partisan or ecclesiastical bias, and which has learned to read and to tell the story of the Christian centuries in a larger spirit and with a more candid utterance. To this end the whole tendency of modern scholarship, with its more critical and more independent methods, has happily contributed; and side by side with the growth of a spirit of frank and fearless inquiry, there has grown up among educated people a more intelligent judgment of historical facts, and more hearty appreciation of every endeavor to ascertain them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Apostolic Age: Its Life, Doctrine, Worship and Polity The late appearance of this volume in the series to which it belongs, calls for a word of explanation. It is scarcely two years since the death of Bishop A. C. Coxe, of Western New York, who had already put his hand to the work, led to the task being transferred to the present writer. Under these circumstances he hopes that the original subscribers will not grudge the time taken in carrying through, amid other duties, the needful studies and reducing tho results to something like unity. How far this volume may deserve its place in "a series of popular monographs," its author is hardly able to judge. But he has at any rate tried to avoid abstract or artificial grouping, and to describe the concrete life of the Apostolic Age as it manifested itself, now here, now there, at the points of greatest activity. In this way the emphasis and perspective of the facts, whether of the Church's "constitution, fundamental polity, doctrine, worship, or social and spiritual life," seem to have the best chance of telling on tho mind directly and in their own right. Only in three chapters at the end has a formal attempt been made to systematize some of the facts already presented, for the most part, in their own proper contexts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Apostolic Age Forces at work, 37 - 38. The Imperial Situation, 38 - 40. Missionary Activity, 41-45. Connexion with the Synagogue, 46 - 49. Opposition and Hindrances, 50 - 52. Organization, 53-58. Worship, 59-64. The Moral Code and Conduct, 65-69. Ascetic Tendencies, 70-72. Attitude to Marriage and Slavery, 73-77. Various Christian Duties and Cus toms, 78 - 8 I. Intercourse between the Communities, 82-84. Struggle with Judaism, 8 5-104. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Apostolic Age: A Study of the Early Church, and Its Achievements In undertaking to present the history of the Apostolic Age in a volume of moderate size, I have had to limit myself strictly as regards description and discussion. The restriction upon descriptive writing I do not regret To picture the view from the Areopagus or to describe the monuments of ancient Athens, sheds little light upon Paul's labours in that city. But I wish it had been possible to discuss more fully the mooted points in apostolic history, which are many. The temptation to do so, in footnotes if not in the text, was strong; but I have kept to the rule of simply stating my conclusions without going into all that might be said against them. Lest this should make me seem at times dogmatic, I wish to say that I have ever recognized the authority of the great scholars, and shaped my statements after careful consideration of what they set forth. While I have been indebted constantly to those who have written before me, I have rarely made acknowledgment of that debt. Often it would be impossible to do so; for after a quarter of a century spent in studying and teaching the Apostolic Age, one is puzzled to trace the source of many of his most helpful ideas. Indeed, every writer upon a Biblical subject "is like unto a man that is a householder, who bringeth out of his treasure things new and old" (Matt. 13:52). The Apostolic Age was the great missionary ago of the church, and should be studied as such. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.