Book contents
- Resetting the Origins of Christianity
- Resetting the Origins of Christianity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Beginnings
- 1 The Romans, Christ and Paul
- 2 ‘The Older, the Better’
- 3 The Apostolic and Prophetic Church according to Iulius Africanus, Origen and Tertullian
- 4 Scriptures and Tradition in Irenaeus and the Canonical New Testament
- 5 The Twelve Apostles
- 6 Traditions of Paul and the Ignatian Letters
- Outlook
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - The Twelve Apostles
The Praxapostolos, the Epistula Apostolorum, and the Acts of the Apostles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 December 2022
- Resetting the Origins of Christianity
- Resetting the Origins of Christianity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Beginnings
- 1 The Romans, Christ and Paul
- 2 ‘The Older, the Better’
- 3 The Apostolic and Prophetic Church according to Iulius Africanus, Origen and Tertullian
- 4 Scriptures and Tradition in Irenaeus and the Canonical New Testament
- 5 The Twelve Apostles
- 6 Traditions of Paul and the Ignatian Letters
- Outlook
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Irenaeus’ view is condensed in the collection that he brought together, combining the Book of Acts with the so-called Catholic Letters (= the Praxapostolos). Placed after the four Gospels, it endorses a neatless development from Jesus and his early followers through the early days of growth of the church in its emancipation from its Jewish beginnings. With Paul’s letters in a revised version that was made to fit the Gospels and the Praxapostolos this fiction of a continuous, rapid and Spirit-guided growth was linked to the success-story of the Church in contra-distinction to the miseries and decline of the Jewish community and the vain attempts at undermining the Church by the develish heretics.
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- Resetting the Origins of ChristianityA New Theory of Sources and Beginnings, pp. 192 - 247Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023