The Organization of the Early Christian Churches

by Edwin Hatch

Publisher:

Rivingtons

, 1882

Overview

Delivered as eight lectures before the University of Oxford, Edwin Hatch’s The Organization of the Early Christian Churches is an engrossing historical account of the formation of ecclesiastical polity. Addressing such controversies as the secular influence within the creation of the early church as well as adopting systems already engaged by civil organizations of the time, Hatch’s lectures have been an integral and contentious resource for early Church historians and theologians.

Key Features

• Thorough introduction by the author
• Detailed table of contents
• Complete indices

Praise for the Print Editions

The treasure chest of Greco-Roman analogues and parallels that Edwin Hatch opened for New Testament students remains open. It is a wonderful resource that we should continue to mine.

—Journal of Biblical Literature, 1999

Product Details

• Title: The Organization of the Early Christian Churches
• Author: Edwin Hatch
• Publisher: Rivingtons
• Publication Date: 1882
• Pages: 270

About Edwin Hatch

Edwin Hatch was born in 1835. He graduated from Pembroke College at Oxford University in 1857, and was ordained as a priest in the Anglican Church in 1859. He served as professor of classics at Trinity College in Toronto, before returning to Oxford in 1867. Between 1880 and 1884, Hatch was the Grinfield lecturer at Oxford, where he delivered the series of lectures upon which his Essays in Biblical Greek is based. He died in 1889.