After the New Testament: 100-300 C.E.: A Reader in Early Christianity

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Great introductory anthology to early Christian texts.

After the New Testament: 100-300 C.E.: A Reader in Early Christianity

Bart Ehrman

Oxford University Press

978-0195398922

https://www.amazon.com/After-New-Testament-C-Christianity/dp/0195398920/ref%3Dsr_1_12?

Amazon blurb:

Revealing the rich diversity of the early Christian movement, After the New Testament: 100-300 CE: A Reader in Early Christianity, Second Edition, brings together an extensive selection of texts from the second and third centuries, both "orthodox" and "heterodox." Selections include the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the writings of Nag Hammadi, early pseudepigrapha, martyrologies, anti-Jewish tractates, heresiologies, canon lists, church orders, liturgical texts, and theological treatises. Featuring large textual excerpts--entire documents wherever possible--concise introductions, and lucid, up-to-date translations, After the New Testament is ideal for courses in Early Christianity, Christian Origins, and Early Church History.

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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