The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia

Name: The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia
Author: William M. Ramsay

Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939) was a Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar, the leading authority of his day on the history of Asia Minor. Trained in the sceptical Tübingen school, his years of excavation and travel in Turkey convinced him of the historical accuracy of Luke's writings. Our library holds St Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia, and Was Christ Born in Bethlehem?

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First published: 1904
Category: Church History
Length: 123k words · about 8 hours
Chapters: 32

About this book

William M. Ramsay's study of the letters to the seven churches of Asia in Revelation 2 and 3, published in 1904. Drawing on his archaeological knowledge of the cities of western Asia Minor, Ramsay relates each letter to its city's history, customs, and local pride. The result illumines how precisely the risen Christ addressed each congregation's condition.

Preface
Chapter 1. Writing, Travel, and Letters Among the Early Christians.
Chapter 2. Transmission of Letters in the First Century.
Chapter 3. The Christian Letters and Their Transmission.
Chapter 4. The Letters to the Seven Churches 🔒
Chapter 5. Relation of the Christian Books to Contemporary Thought and Literature. 🔒
Chapter 6. The Symbolism of the Seven Letters. 🔒
Chapter 7. Authority of the Writer of the Seven Letters. 🔒
Chapter 8. The Education of St. John in Patmos. 🔒
Chapter 9. The Flavian Persecution in the Province of Asia as Depicted in the Apocalypse. 🔒
Chapter 10. The Province of Asia and the Imperial Religion. 🔒
Chapter 11. The Cities of Asia as Meeting-Places of the Greek and the Asiatic Spirit. 🔒
Chapter 12. The Jews in the Asian Cities. 🔒
Chapter 13. The Pagan Converts in the Early Church. 🔒
Chapter 14. The Seven Churches of Asia. 🔒
Chapter 15. Origin of the Seven Representative Cities. 🔒
Chapter 16. Plan and Order of Topics in the Seven Letters. 🔒
Chapter 17. Ephesus: The City of Change. 🔒
Chapter 18. The Letter to the Church in Ephesus. 🔒
Chapter 19. Smyrna: The City of Life. 🔒
Chapter 20. The Letter to the Church in Smyrna. 🔒
Chapter 21. Pergamum: The Royal City: The City of Authority 🔒
Chapter 22. The Letter to the Church in Pergamum. 🔒
Chapter 23. Thyatira: Weakness Made Strong. 🔒
Chapter 24. The Letter to the Church in Thyatira. 🔒
Chapter 25. Sardis: The City of Death. 🔒
Chapter 26. The Letter to the Church in Sardis. 🔒
Chapter 27. Philadelphia: The Missionary City. 🔒
Chapter 28. The Letter to the Church in Philadelphia. 🔒
Chapter 29. Laodicea: The City of Compromise. 🔒
Chapter 30. The Letter to the Church in Laodicea. 🔒
Chapter 31. Epilogue. 🔒