Christian life in the primitive church
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Christian life in the primitive church
Author: Dobschütz, Ernst von, 1870-1934
Year: 1904
Table of Contents INTRODUCTION. THE PROBLEM AND THE SOURCES. xxv-xxxix Christian life according to the Apology of Aristides, xxv. The counter-picture in Hennas, xxvii. The problem, xxviii. The sources, xxix. Their inadequacy, xxix. The various groups of literature, xxix. Limits of the evidence, xxxiii. Want of statistics, xxxiv. Trustworthiness, xxxiv. Theory and fact, xxxvi. The significance of Jesus' moral thoughts, xxxviii. BOOK I. THE PAULINE CHURCHES. Chapter I. The Education of the Churches. 1-10 Moral training by the Apostle, 1. The ethical element of his preaching, 1. Enumerations of vices, 2. Table of domestic duties (Col. iii. 18-iv. 2), 4. Detailed moral teaching (Rom. xii.- xiv.), 5. Motives, 8. Pedagogy, 9 Chapter II. The Church of Corinth. 11-22 The town, 11. Paul's labours, 13. The community, 13. The devotional life, 16. Participation by all, 16. Disorders, 17. False valuation of the Spirit's operations, 18. Baptism and the Lord's Supper, 19. Chapter III. The Church of Corinth (continued). 23-55 Christian and non-Christian, 23. Meat offered to idols, 26. Lawsuits, 29. Mixed marriages, 30. The question of slavery, 33. The position of women, 36. Marriage and celibacy,