Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
1.1
Clement of Rome
1.3 Polycarp of Smyrna
LIST OF WORKS
The writings included among the Apostolic Fathers represent a variety of early Christian traditions across various cultural, ethnic, and linguistic lines. The traditions
they represent hold the Jewish Scriptures to be inspired
by God (unlike Marcionism) and that the Jewish prophets
point to the actual esh and blood of Jesus through which
both Jew and Gentile are saved.
3 List of works
The Epistle to Diognetus
The First Epistle of Clement
1.4
Didache
3
The Epistle of Polycarp
The Martyrdom of Polycarp
The Shepherd of Hermas
Fragments of the writings of Papias, which have survived as quotations in later writers
One short fragment of a writing by Quadratus of
Athens
[6] 1 Clement, Lightfoot translation, is 13, 316 words; Hebrews is only 7,300-400 words depending on translation.
[7] B. Metzger, Canon of the New Testament (Oxford University Press) 1987:43.
[8] Louth 1987:20; preface to both epistles in William Jurgens The Faith of the Early Fathers, vol 1, pp 6 and 42
respectively.
The Apostolic Fathers. Vol. 2. Shepherd of Her[11] History of the Christian Church, Volume II: Ante-Nicene
mas. Martyrdom of Polycarp. Epistle to Diogentus.
Christianity, AD 100-325 - Clement of Rome
Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard Uni[12] Annuario Ponticio (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2008
versity Press, 1913 Kirsopp Lake
The Apostolic Fathers. Vol. 1. I Clement. II
Clement. Ignatius. Polycarp. Didache. Loeb
Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2003 Bart Ehrman (replaced Lake)
The Apostolic Fathers. Vol. 2. Epistle of Barnabas. Papias and Quadratus. Epistle to Diognetus.
The Shepherd of Hermas. Loeb Classical Library.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005 Bart
Ehrman (replaced Lake)
The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English
Translations. 3rd Edition. Grand Rapids: Baker,
2007 Michael Holmes
Die Apostolischen Vter. Germany: Mohr Siebeck,
1992 Andreas Lindemann and Henning Paulsen
(German)
References
ISBN 978-88-209-8021-4), p. 7*
[13] See Ignatius in The Westminster Dictionary of Church
History, ed. Jerald Brauer (Philadelphia:Westminster,
1971) and also David Hugh Farmer, Ignatius of Antioch
in The Oxford Dictionary of the Saints (New York:Oxford
University Press, 1987).
[14] Ignatius, St. Cross, F. L., ed. The Oxford dictionary
of the Christian church. New York: Oxford University
Press. 2005
[15] Encyclopdia Britannica: Saint Ignatius of Antioch
[16] Eph 6:1, Mag 2:1,6:1,7:1,13:2, Tr 3:1, Smy 8:1,9:1
[17] Ignatiuss Letter to the Magnesians 9: Let us therefore no
longer keep the Sabbath after the Jewish manner
[18] Adversus haereses, 3:3:4
[19] Letter to Florinus, quoted in , Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Book V, chapter 20.
[20] See Strongs G1322
[21] Apostolic Constitutions Canon 85 (approved at the Orthodox Synod of Trullo in 692); Runus, Commentary on
Apostles Creed 37 (as Deuterocanonical) c. 380; John of
Damascus Exact Exposition of Orthodox Faith 4.17; and
the 81-book canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
which includes the Didascalia which is based on the Didache.
External links
Catholic Encyclopedia: Apostolic Fathers
Apostolic Fathers in the 1911 Encyclopdia Britannica
Apostolic Fathers in the Christian Cyclopedia
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