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| 008 | 2022-08-20 16:21:23 | ||
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| 040 | _a1 | ||
| 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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