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Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II.

Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II.

by Paul Wernle

Paul Wernle (1872–1939) was a Swiss New Testament scholar who taught at the University of Basel, becoming full professor there in 1905. Trained at Basel, Berlin, and Göttingen, he wrote on the synoptic Gospels, Paul, and Christian origins from a historical-critical standpoint. Our library holds his Beginnings of Christianity, a two-volume survey of the earliest church and its teaching written for general readers as well as students.

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First published
1903
Length
100k words · about 7 hours
Chapters
17

About this book

The second volume of Paul Wernle's history of Christian origins, published in English in 1903. It continues his critical account of the early church's development, its institutions, worship, and theology. Read alongside the first volume, it shows how the history-of-religions school reframed the study of Christian beginnings.

Contents

  1. Introduction.
  2. Author’s Note.
  3. Chapter I. The Decay of the Apostles and Prophets.
  4. Chapter II. The Development of the Episcopacy.
  5. Chapter III. The Order of the Saints.
  6. Chapter IV. The Jewish Faith. 🔒
  7. Chapter V. the Law and Jewish Ethics. 🔒
  8. Chapter VI. The Jewish Church and Its Institutions. 🔒
  9. Chapter VII. The Heathen State and the Heathen Religion. 🔒
  10. Chapter VIII. Greek Philosophy. 🔒
  11. Chapter IX. The Origin of Gnosticism. 🔒
  12. Chapter X. The Intellectural Struggle. 🔒
  13. Chapter XI. The Fate of Jesus. 🔒
  14. The Fate of Paul. 🔒
  15. Chapter XIII. The Christian Hope. 🔒
  16. Chapter XIV. The Christian Mode of Life. 🔒
  17. Chapter XV. The Redemption. 🔒

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