The Apostolic Age: Its Life, Doctrine, Worship and Polity
Overview
This collection presents detailed works by nineteenth-century writers describing 10 distinct eras of church history—from the missionary journeys of Paul to the Anglican Reformation. When it was released, the Ten Epochs of Church History series addressed a burgeoning sense of historic inquiry that marked that time period. Unlike the scholarly histories that came before, these fascinating accounts were written in hopes of engaging parishioners of all ages and backgrounds. Volume one describes the Apostolic age.
Top Highlights
“For the first and most radical contrast is that of general outlook. The Apostolic Age was instinct with the belief that Christ would return before the generation of His first witnesses had died away: and much of its aloofness of attitude towards ordinary human interests, all that may be called culture as distinct from sanctity, was bound up with this human illusion. Wider experience of God’s ways has brought another and larger conception of His counsels for His Kingdom on earth. It is received not only as sword and fire in the moral order of the world, but also as leaven. In a legitimate sense the Church is now acclimatized to its permanent place and function in society at large.” (Page 472)
- Title: The Apostolic Age: Its Life, Doctrine, Worship and Polity
- Author: James Vernon Bartlet
- Series: Ten Epochs of Church History
- Volume: I
- Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
- Print Publication Date: 1899
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Church history › Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
- Resource ID: LLS:APOSTOLICAGE
- Resource Type: text.monograph.church-history
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:03:54Z