Ministry in the Early Church

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Primary Sources

	Apostolic Constitutions 3.20; 8.3-5, 16-28.
	Augustine, Against the Letter of Parmenides 2.13.28ff.
	Augustine, On Baptism Against the Donastists 1.1.2.
	Augustine, On the Good of Marriage 24 (32).
	Hippolytus, Apostolic Tradition 2-3; 8-15;
	H.J. Schroeder, Disciplinary Decrees of the General Councils: Text, Translation, and Commentary. St. Louis & London: Herder, 1937.
	Serapion, Prayerbook 12-14.
	Testament of Our Lord 1.21, 30, 38.

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	G. Dix, "The Ministry of the Early Church," K.E. Kirk, ed. The Apostolic Ministry, 2nd edn. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1957. pp.183-303.
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	Adolf von Harnack, The Constitution and Law of the Church in the First Two Centuries. London: Norgate and Williams, 1910.
	Edwin Hatch [1835-1889], The Organisation of the Early Christian Churches. Eight Lectures Delivered before the Universty of Oxford,in the Year 1880. On the Foundation of the late Rev. John Bampton, M.A., Canon of Salisbury. London: Rivingtons, 1881. pp.xxviii + 216. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
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	Joseph T. Lienhard, Ministry. Wilmington: Glazier, 1994. Pbk. ISBN: 0814653200. pp.183.
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	Thomas Martin Lindsay, The Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1902. pdf
	T.W. Manson, The Church's Ministry. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1948. pp.112.
	W. Harold Mare, "Church functionaries: the witness in the literature and archaeology of the New Testament and church periods," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 13.4 (Fall 1970): 229-239. pdf
	Kenan B. Osborne, Priesthood: A History of the Ordained Ministry in the Roman Catholic Church. New York / Mahwah: Paulist, 1988. pp. vii + 388.
	H.B. Porter, Jr. The Ordination Papers of the Ancient Western Churches. London: SPCK, 1967.
	David Rankin, "Tertullian's consistency of thought on ministry," Studia Patristica 21 (1989): 271-76.
	B. Reiche, "The Constitution of the Primitive Church in the Light of Jewish Documents," K. Stendahl, ed. The Scrolls and the New Testament. New York: Harper, 1957.
	Leopold Sabourin, Early Catholicism and Ministries: Bibliographical Commentary. Burlington, Ontario: Trinity, 1989. pp.126.
	Jeffrey G. Sobosan, "The Role of the Presbyter: An Investigation into the Adversus Haereses of Saint Irenaeus," Scottish Journal of Theology 27.2 (1974): 129-146.
	Burnett Hillman Streeter, The Primitive Church, Studied with Special Reference to the Origins of the Christian Ministry. London: Macmillan, 1929. pp. xiv + 323.
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	H.B. Swete, ed. Essays on the Early History of the Church and Ministry, 2nd edn. London: Macmillan, 1921. pp. xxxvi + 446.
	G.H. Williams, "The Ministry in the Later Patristic Period," and "The Ministry in the Later Patristic Period," H.R. Niebuhr & D.D. Williams, eds The Ministry in Historical Perspectives. New York: Harper, 1956. pp.27-81.