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The Original Bishops
Alistair C. Stewart
其他書名
Office and Order in the First Christian Communities
出版Baker Academic, 2014-05-06
主題Religion / Christian Church / HistoryReligion / Christianity / History
ISBN14412457079781441245700
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TOd9EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A Jesus Creed 2015 Book of the Year

This work provides a new starting point for studying the origins of church offices. Alistair Stewart, a leading authority on early Christianity and a meticulous scholar, provides essential groundwork for historical and theological discussions. Stewart refutes a long-held consensus that church offices emerged from collective leadership at the end of the first century. He argues that governance by elders was unknown in the first centuries and that bishops emerged at the beginning of the church; however, they were nothing like bishops of a later period. The church offices as presently known emerged in the late second century. Stewart debunks widespread assumptions and misunderstandings, offers carefully nuanced readings of the ancient evidence, and fully interacts with pertinent secondary scholarship.