A History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age (1897 McGiffert), book

A History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age (1897) is a book by Arthur Cushman McGiffert.

Editions and translations

Published in New York, NY: C. Scribner's Sons; and Edinburgh [Scotland]: T&T Clark, 1897. Often reprinted until the 1920s. Reissued in Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Pub., 2004.

Table of contents

• 1. The Origin of Christianity
  • 1. Judaism
  • 2. John the Baptist
  • 3. Jesus
• 2. Primitive Christianity
  • 1. The New Beginning
  • 2. Pentecost and the Earliest Evangelism
  • 3. The Life of the Primitive Disciples
  • 4. The Conflict with Judaism
  • 5. The Widening Field
• 3. The Christianity of Paul
• 4. The Work of Paul
  • 1. The Roman World
  • 2. The First Three Years of Paul's Christian Life
  • 3. Paul in Syria and Cilicia
  • 4. The Evangelization of Galatia
  • 5. The Conflict with Judaizers
  • 6. The Evangelization of Macedonia
  • 7. The Evangelization of Achaia
  • 8. The Evangelization of Asia
  • 9. Trouble in the Church of Corinth
  • 10. Paul's Final Visit to Corinth, and his Epistle to the Romans
  • 11. Paul's Final Visit to Jerusalem and his Arrest and Imprisonment
  • 12. Paul in Rome
  • 13. The Companions and Disciples of Paul
• 5. The Christianity of the Church at Large
  • 1. The Common Conception of the Gospel
  • 2. The Christianity of the Epistle to the Hebrews
  • 3. The Christianity of the First Epistle of Peter
  • 4. The Christianity of the Johannine Writings
  • 5. The Radical Paulinism of the Gnostics and Other Sectaries
  • 6. The Christian Life
• 6. The Developing Church
  • 1. James and the Church of Jerusalem
  • 2. Peter and the Church of Rome
  • 3. John and the Church of Asia
  • 4. The Church and the Empire
  • 5. The Unity of the Church
  • 6. The Developing Organization

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