The early church at work and worshipVolume 2Catechesis, baptism, eschatology, and martyrdomCatechesis, baptism, eschatology, and martyrdomFerguson, Everett1933-creatorauthor.textElectronic books.History.enk2014monographiceng
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1 online resource (p. cm.)This is the second volume of Ferguson's collected essays, and includes some of his most memorable work.Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Irenaeus' Proof of the Apostolic Preaching and Early Catechetical Instruction; 2. Catechesis and Initiation; 3. Christian and Jewish Baptism according to the Epistle of Barnabas; 4. Baptism according to Origen; 5. The Doctrine of Baptism in Gregory of Nyssa's Oratio Catechetica; 6. Exhortations to Baptism in the Cappadocians; 7. Basil's Protreptic to Baptism; 8. Preaching at Epiphany: Gregory of Nyssa and John Chrysostom on Baptism and the Church; 9. Spiritual Circumcision in Early Christianity.10. Inscriptions and the Origin of Infant Baptism11. The Disgrace and the Glory: A Jewish Motif in Early Christianity; 12. The Kingdom of God in Early Patristic Literature; 13. Was Barnabas a Chiliast? An Example of Hellenistic Number Symbolism in Barnabas and Clement of Alexandria; 14. Millennial and Amillennial Expectations in Christian Eschatology: Ancient and Medieval Views; 15. Number Symbolism in the Ancient World; 16. Divine Pedagogy: Origen's Use of the Imagery of Education; 17. Early Christian Martyrdom and Civil Disobedience; Bibliography; Back cover.Everett Ferguson.CatecheticsHistoryEarly church, ca. 30-600BaptismHistoryEarly church, ca. 30-600EschatologyHistory of doctrinesEarly church, ca. 30-600MartyrdomChristianityHistoryRELIGION / Christian Theology / SystematicRELIGION / Christianity / GeneralBaptismEarly churchCatecheticsEarly churchEschatologyHistory of doctrinesEarly churchMartyrdomChristianityEvangelistic workHistoryEarly church, ca. 30-600ReligionWorshipHistoryEarly church, ca. 30-600RELIGION / Christian Church / History 30-600 fast BR165230.119780227903759022790375722573/ctt1cg86cd JSTORhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=836591http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=836591UKMGB14103020200709060218.0ocn894609321eng