The early church and today. Volume 1. Ministry, initiation, and worship /

The early church and today. Volume 1. Ministry, initiation, and worship /

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Author / Creator:Ferguson, Everett, 1933- author.
Imprint:Abilene, TX : Abilene Christain University Press, [2012]
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Subject:
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history -- Primitive and early church.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12540102
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Varying Form of Title:Ministry, initiation, and worship
ISBN:9780891128618
0891128611
9780891125860
0891125868
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:The Early Church and Today is a collection of scholarly articles by an acclaimed specialist in early Christianity written for a broad audience. The topics taken from the New Testament and other early Christian literature are relevant for the church today. The articles are grouped in the following categories: church and ministry, baptism and initiation, worship and assembly, and church music.
Other form:Print version: Ferguson, Everett, 1933- Early church and today. Volume 1. Ministry, initiation, and worship 9780891125860
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Church and ministry. Four freedoms of the church
  • The ministry of the word in the first two centuries
  • Ordination according to Acts: Acts 6:1-6
  • Laying on of hands in Acts 6:6 and 13:3
  • The authority and tenure of elders
  • Church order in the sub-Apostolic period: a survey of interpretations
  • The ministry in the Apostolic Fathers
  • The "congregationalism" of the early church
  • Article review of Dan William's Retrieving the tradition and renewing evangelicalism: a primer for suspicious Protestants
  • Women in the post-Apostolic church
  • Part II. Baptism and initiation. Baptismal motifs in the ancient church
  • Baptism in the Partistic period
  • Part III. Demonology. The demons according to Justin Martyr
  • Origen's demonology
  • Part IV. Worship and assembly. Justin Martyr and the liturgy
  • "When you come together"
  • I Timothy 2:8
  • Sabbath: Saturday or Sunday? a review article
  • Part V. Church music. Jewish religious music in the first century
  • temple, synagogue, home and sect
  • The theology of singing
  • The case for a cappella music in the Christian assembly
  • Church music in Ephesians and Colossians: exegesis of Colossians 3:15-17
  • Early church history and the instrumental music controversy
  • Congregational singing in the early church.

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