TY - BOOK AU - Ferguson,Everett TI - The early church at work and worship SN - 9780227903759 AV - BR165 U1 - 230.11 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge PB - James Clarke KW - Catechetics KW - History KW - Early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Baptism KW - Eschatology KW - History of doctrines KW - Martyrdom KW - Christianity KW - RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION / Christianity / General KW - Early church KW - fast KW - Evangelistic work KW - Religion KW - Worship KW - RELIGION / Christian Church / History KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - This is the second volume of Ferguson's collected essays, and includes some of his most memorable work UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=836591 ER -