Norms of Faith and Life

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Everett Ferguson
Taylor & Francis, 1999 - Religion - 360 pages
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
 

Contents

Christianity and Society
1
Christianity in Relation to Jews Greeks and Romans
2
Norms of Faith and Life
3
Doctrinal Diversity
4
Forms of Devotion
5
History Hope Human Language and Christian Reality
6
The Wisdom of Solomon in the Muratorian Fragment
47
The Title of the New Testament
59
A Historical and Theological Reflection
158
Diogenes Laertius and the Apostolic Succession
177
The Authority of Augustine
227
Basil of Caesareas Homily On Envy
257
John Chrysostom on Almsgiving and the Use of Money
279
Jerome and the Sham Christians of Rome
299
The Morality of Lying in St Augustine
317
Augustines Own Examples of Lying
333

Clement of Alexandria as a Witness to the Development
85
Irenaeus Use of Paul in His Polemic Against the Gnostics
101
The Use and Interpretation of Paul in Irenaeuss
125
Acknowledgments
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About the author (1999)

Everett Ferguson is Professor of Church History Emeritus at Abilene Christian University. A specialist in early Christian history, his work in this field includes the books Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, Studies in Early Christianity, and The Church of Christ: A Biblical Ecclesiology for Today