Overview

The Institutions of the Emerging Church presents essays by Scandinavian scholars on the self-understanding and institutions of the primitive Church from the beginnings until the first decades of the second century. It continues a Scandinavian tradition reaching back to the internationally known works connected with the Anton Fridrichsen-circle. The volume is particularly timely as Fridrichsen's theology and Scandinavian biblical scholarship in general are receiving increasing attention (especially in the wake of the 1994 WUNT collection of Fridrichsen's exegetical writings). Contributors to this volume come from diverse denominations (Protestant and Catholic), while their basic common background still lends the volume a clearly distinguishable profile. In sixteen essays this book provides an up-to-date and well-structured treatment of all the central institutions of the early Church. The essays cover the following topics: the self-understanding, worship, cult and sacraments as well as the offices of the emerging primitive Church. Comprehensive treatment of the history of research is included. In one volume, the book offers an easy access to the heartbeat of the fledgling Church, soon to occupy a dominant role in history of western civilization.

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Author:   Sven-Olav Back (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) ,  Tom Holmén
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   T.& T.Clark Ltd
Volume:   v. 305
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9780567030740

ISBN 10:   0567030741
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 August 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction (Sven-Olav Back) I. Images of the Church 2. The Body of Christ (René Kieffer) 3. The People of God (Tord Fornberg) 4. Temple Ecclesiology (Tom Holmén) II. Sacraments 5. The Eucharist in Paul and in Hebrews (Jostein Ådna) 6. The Eucharist in John and in Ignatius (Sven-Olav Back) 7. A New Life to Live: An Aspect of some Baptismal Texts from the Second and Third Generation Church (Lars Hartman) III. Offices and Tradition 8. The Apostolate in the early Church: From Luke-Acts to the Pauline Tradition (Samuel Byrskog) 9. Hold fast to the traditions that you were taught by us: The notion of a common apostolic tradition in the Pauline letters (Reidar Hvalvik) 10. The religious authorities in the Corpus Paulinum (Erkki Koskenniemi) 11. The Rise of the Monepiscopacy (Mikael Isacson)

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Dr. Tom Holmén is Docent in New Testament exegetics at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

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