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List Books » From Synagogue to Church: Public Services and Offices in the Earliest Christian Communities
Authors: James Tunstead Burtchaell
ISBN-13: 9780521418928, ISBN-10: 0521418925
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 1992
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This important work engages with a long historical debate: were the earliest Christians under the direction of ordained ministers, or under the influence of inspired laypeople?
Preface | ||
1 | The Reformation: challenge to an old consensus | 1 |
2 | The nineteenth century: a new consensus is formulated | 61 |
3 | The early twentieth century: the consensus is disputed | 101 |
4 | The last fifty years: the consensus restated, rechallenged, reused | 136 |
5 | A search for a new hypothesis | 180 |
6 | Jewish community organization in the later Second Temple period | 201 |
7 | The officers of the synagogue | 228 |
8 | Community organization in the early Christian settlement | 272 |
9 | A conclusion | 339 |
Index auctorum | 358 | |
Index locorum | 362 |