The apostolic age; its life, doctrine, worship and polity . Life of the Roman Church.âRoman Notion of Corin-thian Affairs.âNot quite True to the Facts.âGifts, andthe Lead in Worship.âDirection of Christian Sentimentat Rome.âThe Christians Sacrifice of Prayer.âOriginof Liturgical Prayer.âClement of Rome 442 BOOK IV. CHURCH LIFE AND DOCTRINE. CHAP. I.âCHURcn Fellowship.âBaptism.âConfirma-tion.âThe Eucharist.âDomestic Eucharists, and Agapre.âPlinys Report.âVariation of Church Customs.âStatusof Children.âSpontaneous Simplicity of the Age . 459 CHAP. II.âOrganization and DisciplineâThe Minis-try.âA
The apostolic age; its life, doctrine, worship and polity . Life of the Roman Church.âRoman Notion of Corin-thian Affairs.âNot quite True to the Facts.âGifts, andthe Lead in Worship.âDirection of Christian Sentimentat Rome.âThe Christians Sacrifice of Prayer.âOriginof Liturgical Prayer.âClement of Rome 442 BOOK IV. CHURCH LIFE AND DOCTRINE. CHAP. I.âCHURcn Fellowship.âBaptism.âConfirma-tion.âThe Eucharist.âDomestic Eucharists, and Agapre.âPlinys Report.âVariation of Church Customs.âStatusof Children.âSpontaneous Simplicity of the Age . 459 CHAP. II.âOrganization and DisciplineâThe Minis-try.âApostle Authority.âOrigins of Organizations.âMinisterial Functions.âCharismatic Gifts.âAppoint-ment of Ministers.âNo Episcopal System.âThe Congre-gation the Unit.âPractical Ethics.âEthical ChangesWrought 476 CHAP. III.âTypes of DoctrineâJudasâChristianity andthe Cross.âThe Pauline Experience.âIts Anti-Legal ism.âThe Divine Life in Man.âPost-Apostolic Doctrine . 497 Literary Appendix 509. PREFACE. HE late appearance of this volume in theseries to which it belongs, calls for aword of explanation. It is scarcely twoyears since the death of Bishop A. , of Western New York, who hadalready put his hand to the work, led to the taskbeing transferred to the present writer. Underthese circumstances he hopes that the original sub-scribers will not grudge the time taken in carryingthrough, amid other duties, the needful studies andreducing the results to something like unity. How far this volume may deserve its place in aseries of popular monographs, its author is hardlyable to judge. But he has at any rate tried to avoidabstract or artificial grouping, and to describe theconcrete life of the Apostolic Age as it manifesteditself, now here, now there, at the points of greatestactivity. In this way the emphasis and perspectiveof the facts, whether of the Churchs constitution,fundamental polity, doctrine, worship, or social andspiritual life, seem to hav
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