After The New Testament (The Writing Of The Apostolic Fathers, Part 1)

After The New Testament (The Writing of the Apostolic Fathers, Part 1)

The writings that make up the New Testament stand at the very foundation of Christianity. In these 27 books that represent the earliest surviving literary works of the young church, we have what came to be regarded as sacred scripture, the canon of what was to become the most powerful and influential religion in the history of Western civilization.Who were the Apostolic Fathers? Why were they given that name? In this course, new perspectives of the shaping of Christianity's canon, church hierarchy, and creed are opened for us with an understanding of works that include the letters of 1 Clement or Ignatius, the Didache of the Apostles, and the Letter to Diognetus.