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Title: The Early Christians: In Their Own Words by Eberhard Arnold, Plough Publishing House ISBN: 0-87486-095-4 Publisher: Plough Publishing House Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: "Wonderful Reference Tool for Early Christianity"
Comment: Eberhard Arnold's work on "The Early Christians," is an excellent source for understanding the beliefs and doctrines of the early christians in context of their own testimony and time. Arnold begins with a comprehensive introduction to shed light upon the social aspects of church society contrasted with its remarkable spread throughout the Pagan world. In other words, Arnold does a good job describing the initial steps of primative Christianity that would eventually leed to the well-structured and ecclesiastical institution that has prevailed to this very day. The testimonies recorded of these champions of faith, are composed with skill, and fit the criteria for which they were purposed in this work and in their time. Unfortunately, early christians didn't write that much, so we are indebted to work with what has existed from either oral tradition or scholarly manuscripts. There are no 'real' drawbacks to this work except the fact that the actual testimonies are few and emanate only from the scholarly retinue of the sencond century. Overall, this book gets four stars; the benefits range from quick reference to quotes(etc.), and to a broad spectrum of the personality and character of the early church itself.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good compilation of early believers' writings
Comment: Eberhard Arnold begins with a brief history of the gradual institutionalizing of simple discipleship into ecclesiastical Christianity. His understood intent, througout the book, is to bring believers back to the basic lifestyle of Christ that was so resplendent in the early disciples. Chapters on martyrs, description of early church life and worship, and the beliefs of the early Christians concerning prophecy, persecution, and the return of Jesus are especially beneficial. A MUST read for anyone who wants to "walk as Jesus did" (1 Jn. 2:6) and follow the examples of the early believers. I heartily recommend this stirring and passionate treatment of "authentic discipleship" by disciple Arnold.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent resource & scholarship on the early church!
Comment: Eberhard Arnold's book is one of the most profound that I have read on early church history. In his attempt to recreate a communal society which was as close to that of the early church as possible (the Bruderhof in Germany and, later, the Hutterites in England), Arnold researched all the early sources which he could find, whether written by Jews, Christians, Romans, or others from the ancient world. His massive volume contains everything he found in his attempt to get to the spirit of that early community. He quotes from Tertullian, Justin, Cicero, Ignatius, Jerome, Theophilus of Antioch, Polycarp, and others. He does not draw conclusions but lets those to his readers to ascertain from the evidence of early believers.
The book is heavy laden with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of translated selections from the original Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. It is a rare edition which enlightens at every turn and, in some ways, reminds one of all the evidence on both sides of the fence which emerge in court proceedings. One reads the martyrdoms of many an early Christian and wonders whence their courage emerged. Much information abounds on early catecomb worship practices in Rome. The book is a marvel, and I can't recommend it highly enough.
Jeanne Smith McPherson, KS.
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Title: Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers (Penguin Classics) by Maxwell Staniforth, Andrew Louth, Thomas Wyatt ISBN: 0140444750 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken ISBN: 0300098391 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Eusebius: The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine by Eusebius, G.A. Williamson ISBN: 0140445358 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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