The History and Literature of the Early Church

by James Orr

Publisher:

Hodder and Stoughton

, 1913

Overview

This volume is comprised of the revised and expanded lectures on early church history that James Orr originally delivered as professor of church history at the United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh. In 180 packed pages, Orr surveys the history and literature of the Christian church up to Constantine. Includes a detailed table of contents, helpful notes, a table of Roman emperors, and two appendixes with additional material. Lectures include:

• The Jewish and Gentile Preparations
• The Creative Beginning: Jesus on Kingdom and Church
• The Apostolic Age and Later Jewish Christianity
• Gentile Christianity: Nero to Domitian (AD 64–96)
• The Age of the Apostolic Fathers (AD 96–117)
• The Age of the Apologists (AD 117–180)
• The Age of the Apologists: Gnostiscm and Montanism (AD 117–180)
• The Age of the Old Catholic Fathers (AD 180–250)
• The Age of the Great Persecutions: Victory of Christianity (AD 250–324)

Praise for the Print Edition

Professor Orr has given an interesting, sound, scholarly, well-proportioned sketch, reflecting the latest knowledge—a book that can be cordially commended as giving the facts at once impartially and attractively.

—Methodist Review

The breadth of Dr. Orr’s learning and the sobriety of his judgment render it a very admirable guide to opinion through the mazes of this difficult period.

—The Presbyterian and Reformed Review

Product Details

• Title: The History and Literature of the Early Church
• Author: James Orr
• Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
• Print Publication Date: 1913
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 180
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Church history › Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Christian literature, early
• Resource ID: LLS:HISTLITEARCHORR
• Resource Type: text.monograph.church-history
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T03:51:47Z

About James Orr

James Orr (1844-1913), born in Glasgow, was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian. He was minister at East Bank United Presbyterian Church, Hawick from 1874 to 1891, and professor of apologetics and theology at Glasgow College of the United Free Church from 1901 until his death. One of his more prominent works is The Christian View of God and the World as Centering in the Incarnation (1893).

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