The apostolic age; its life, doctrine, worship and polity . mes better known not only indetail but also in its underlying conception of whatChristian religion really is, yet prove the greatEirenicon, harmonizing the distinctions to which itspartial rediscovery at the Reformation gave riseunder the peculiar political and mental conditionsof the sixteenth century. My large indebtedness to many scholars of myown and other lands, beyond that hinted in text andfootnotes, I here gladly acknowledge. Yet no efforthas been spared to see the facts afresh with onesown eyes. Indeed I could wish that this
The apostolic age; its life, doctrine, worship and polity . mes better known not only indetail but also in its underlying conception of whatChristian religion really is, yet prove the greatEirenicon, harmonizing the distinctions to which itspartial rediscovery at the Reformation gave riseunder the peculiar political and mental conditionsof the sixteenth century. My large indebtedness to many scholars of myown and other lands, beyond that hinted in text andfootnotes, I here gladly acknowledge. Yet no efforthas been spared to see the facts afresh with onesown eyes. Indeed I could wish that this had notled so often to the necessity of striking out ratheran independent path on literary questions. But myhope is that, either in text or Literary Appendix,due notice of alternative views has always beengiven. Finally, my special thanks are due to myfriend, A. S. Peake, M. A., late Fellow of MertonCollege, and now of Manchester, who under noslight stress of time perused my first proofs andmade some valued suggestions. Vernon Bartlet. Oxford, June, INTRODUCTORY. 1. SCOPE, SOURCES, CHRONOLOGY. HE Apostolic Age is generally takento cover the period of some forty yearsbetween the Crucifixion and the destruc-tion of the Temple. Within this falls notonly the narrative contained in Acts, butalso nearly all that we can reckon historic in whatreaches us otherwise touching the original Apostles,those namely who were contemporaries of their Lord,Jesus Christ. In particular, these years embrace thewhole course of the two chief founders of the actualChurch of the first century, Peter, the Apostle of theJews, and Paul, the Apostle of the Gentiles. Yet,in spite of this and of the momentous change inmens thoughts as to the Kingdom of God wroughtby the ruin of the Jewish State and temple-worshipin 70 A. D., there is another and larger sense inwhich the Apostolic Age closes only with theend of the century, when the living voice of the lastof Christs personal disciples became silent amon
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