Christianity in the Apostolic Age – A.C. McGiffert
Today’s free book is a substantial treatment of the history of Christianity in the Apostolic period by Arthur Cushman McGiffert.
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Arthur Cushman McGiffert [1861-1933], A History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1897. Hbk. pp.680. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]
Table of Contents
- Preface
- The Origin of Christianity
- Judaism
- John the Baptist
- Jesus
- Primitive Jewish Christianity
- The New Beginning
- Pentecost and the Earliest Evangelism
- The Life of the Primitive Disciples
- The Conflict with Judaism
- The Widening Field
- The Christianity of Paul
- The Work of Paul
- The Roman World
- The First Three Years of Paul’s Christian Life
- Paul in Syria and Cilicia
- The Evangelization of Galatia
- The Conflict with Judaizers
- The Evangelization of Macedonia
- The Evangelization of Achaia
- The Evangelization of Asia
- Troule in the Church of Corinth
- Paul’s Final Visiti to Corinth, and his Epistle to the Romans
- Paul’s Final Visit to Jerusalem and his Arrest and Imprisonment
- Paul in Rome
- The Companions and Disciples of Paul
- The Christianity of the Church at Large
- The Common Conception of the Gospel
- The Christianity of the Epistle to the Hebrews
- The Christianity of the First Epistle of Peter
- The Christianity of the Johannine Writings
- The Radical Paulinism of the Gnostics and Other Sectaries
- The Christian Life
- The Developing Church
- James and the Church of Jerusalem
- Peter and the Church of Rome
- John and the Church of Asia
- The Church and the Empire
- The Unity of the Church
- The Developing Organization
- Index Chronological Tale
Main image: A typical Western image of the Pentecost. Duccio di Buoninsegna (1308). Source: Wikipedia.