{"id":1369,"date":"2010-06-24T20:03:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plgo.info\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2010-06-24T20:03:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:03:22","slug":"ferrar-the-early-christian-books-a-short-introduction-to-christian-literature-to-the-middle-of-the-second-century-1919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/plgo.org\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"Ferrar. The early Christian books, a short introduction to Christian literature to the middle of the Second Century. 1919."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">THE EARLY<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">CHRISTIAN BOOKS<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO<br \/>\nCHRISTIAN LITERATURE TO THE MIDDLE OF<br \/>\nTHE SECOND CENTURY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BY<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>WILLIAM JOHN FERRAR, M. A.<\/strong><br \/>\nVICAR OF EAST FINCHLEY, LATE SCHOLAR OF HERTFORD COLLEGE, OXFORD<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">WITH A FOREWORD BY THE<br \/>\nBISHOP OF LONDON<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">LONDON<br \/>\nSOCIETY FOR PROMOTING<br \/>\nCHRSITIAN KNOWLEDGE<br \/>\nNEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY<br \/>\n1919<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is to gather together in a compact form what is known of the earliest writings of Christianity outside the New Testament, that these short studies are written. They lay no claim to originality, they simply attempt to reproduce the opinions of the best scholars. At the same time the writings themselves have been studied in detail. An effort has been made to set each book in its historical setting, to let the writer by means of summaries and quotations speak for himself, and to lay special emphasis on passages which describe with any vividness the actual life of the developing Church. The Bibliography will show where fuller knowledge of these books and of the age in which they were written can be found.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">CONTENTS.<br \/>\nINTRODUCTION \t\t\t\t\tv<br \/>\nBIBLIOGRAPHY \t\t\t\t\txiii<br \/>\nTABLE OF DATES \t\t\t\txvii<br \/>\nEPISTLE OF CLEMENT OF ROME\t \t\tI<br \/>\nA HOMILY BY AN UNKNOWN WRITER \t\t10<br \/>\nTHE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS \t\t\t13<br \/>\nTHE EPISTLE OF POLYCARP \t\t\t20<br \/>\nTHE LETTER OF THE SMYRN\u00c6ANS \t\t24<br \/>\nTHE TEACHING OF THE APOSTLES (THE DIDACHE) 30<br \/>\nTHE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS \t\t\t37<br \/>\nTHE SHEPHERD OF HERMAS \t\t\t42<br \/>\nTHE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS \t\t\t50<br \/>\nPAPIAS \t\t\t\t\t\t55<br \/>\nGNOSTIC SYSTEMS \t\t\t\t60<br \/>\nAPOCRYPHAL BOOKS \t\t\t\t65<br \/>\nTHE ODES OF SOLOMON \t\t\t\t76<br \/>\nJUSTIN MARTYR \t\t\t\t\t81<br \/>\nTHE APOLOGY OF ARISTIDES \t\t\t91<br \/>\nTATIAN&#8217;S ORATION AND DIATESSARON \t\t98<br \/>\nINDEX \t\t\t\t\t\t105<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src='http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/earlychristianbo00ferruoft?ui=embed' width='480px' height='430px'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE EARLY CHRISTIAN BOOKS A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN LITERATURE TO THE MIDDLE OF THE SECOND CENTURY BY WILLIAM JOHN FERRAR, M. 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