TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stewart, Alistair Charles
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TI  - The original bishops
SN  - 9780801049217
U1  - 262.1209015 
CY  - U.S.A.
KW  - Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca 30-600
N2  - This work provides a new starting point for studying the origins of church offices. Alistair Stewart, a leading authority on early Christianity and a meticulous scholar, provides the essential groundwork for historical and theological discussions. Stewart refutes a long-held consensus that church offices emerged from collective leadership at the end of the first century. He argues that governance by elders was unknown in the first centuries and that bishops emerged at the beginning of the church
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