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041 _a0 eng
082 _a262.1209015
082 _bA414-S85
100 _aStewart, Alistair Charles
100 _d(1960-...)
100 _eAuthor
245 _aThe original bishops
245 _bOffice and order in the first Christian communities
245 _cAlistair Charles Stewart
260 _aU.S.A.
260 _bBaker Academic
260 _c2014
300 _a394tr.
300 _bHardcover
300 _c23cm
520 _aThis 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
650 _aChurch history -- Primitive and early church, ca 30-600
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