The Church of the Apostles
Overview
The Church of the Apostles is an outline of the history of the church in the apostolic age, taken from a careful study of the New Testament. Lonsdale Ragg draws on the eyewitness accounts found in the Gospels and uses the Acts of the Apostles as a framework for the events which took place in the beginnings of the church. Ragg discusses the beginning of the church at Pentecost, as well as the different regions of gentile Christianity. He also explores the church’s organization, inner life, literature, heresies, and more.
Top Highlights
“The fiery utterances of the Epistle of St. Jude and the second of St. Peter, like those of the Revelation, are couched in a form essentially Hebrew, and retain something of the colour of that Jewish apocalyptic literature in which their writers’ minds were steeped.1 But the plain and forcible phrases in which St. Paul’s and St. John’s Epistles denounce the false teachers of their day, are essentially human in their straight-forwardness; and, if we fail to appreciate the justice of such language, it is largely because we fail to realise the importance of the issues involved.” (Page 299)
“Cappadocian Church, Mother of Gothic and, in part, of Armenian Christianity, and illustrious in its learned and saintly sons—it produced in a single generation three of the Church’s greatest doctors, St. Basil and the two Gregorys—was destined to play a far more glorious part in Christendom than that of Pamphylia.” (Page 126)
“Honour the King,’ when that ‘king’ is a Nero. But the simple phrase which St. Peter utters about suffering ‘as a Christian’3 is all-important, because it suggests a limit beyond which the Christian might not pass in submission to ‘the powers that be.’” (Page 34)
“Probably the most serious initial obstacle to the independent development of the religion of Christ was the difficulty which the first nucleus of the Church—consisting entirely of Jews—found in disentangling the new religion from the old.” (Page 31)
“Antioch was to be the champion of Christian freedom against Judaistic legalism, and at the same time the Mother Church of Gentile Christianity.” (Page 68)
- Title: The Church of the Apostles
- Author: Lonsdale Ragg
- Series: The Church Universal
- Volume: I
- Publisher: Macmillan Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1909
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Church history › Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
- Resource ID: LLS:CHURCHAPOSTLES
- Resource Type: text.monograph.church-history
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:34:03Z