Didache

The Didache is a collection of early Christian teachings that outlines a variety of Christian practices. It was written as a result of Christianity’s urge to establish and differentiate itself amongst other popular and threatening religious groups such as Gnosticism and Marcionism during the second century. The purpose of the Didache is to guide in the process of standardizing and regulating church leadership and methods of worship. Subsequently after Jesus’ crucifixion, the prevalent notion among Jesus’s early followers was that the world was going to end approximately within a generation. Understandably, followers of Jesus, especially the apostles, used their time and energy spreading the word of Jesus rather than developing an institutionalized…

10 of the Didache which concerns the thanks over the cup and bread. According to the Didache 9:2, over the cup one would say “We thank you, our Father, for the holy vine of David your servant, which you made known to us through Jesus your servant. To you be the glory forever.” This formula of speech is derived from the Jewish blessing over the wine which in English goes "Blessed art thou, oh Lord our God, King of the universe, Creator of the fruit of the vine.” As a document of ancient…

The Gospel of Matthew contains a number of verses that provide a conflicting yet intriguing insight to the status of women and the interactions that Jesus had with them. A consequence of these differing views is the uncertainty readers may have over the role of women and their influence in the rise of Christianity. Professor Rodney Stark’s essay on the role of women promotes the notion that women were major stakeholders in Christianity and acted as a catalyst to the religion’s rapid growth.…

This essay will look at the Didache, it will start by looking at what the Didache is. Then looking at each part separately and discussing the contents, it will summarise each section of the Didache before analysing the possible use. It will then discuss how and why this is important for contemporary church historians. The Didache is quite a short work which is written in a very straightforward, practical way. It was thought to be lost until it was rediscovered in 1873 by Archbishop Bryennios, in…

The requirements for baptism found in the New Testament and the Didache vary from each other in most ways but are also similar in a couple ways. The ways the New Testament and the Didache are similar is because water is the always used in the ritual and because the ritual of baptism is always in the name of the Father and of The Son and of the Holy Spirit. "For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body - whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free - and have all been made to drink into…

There were four men who came to be known as the “Apostolic Fathers” The term Apostolic Fathers is used to describe a group of early Christian writings produced in the late 1st and 2nd century . They are (Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Papias, and authors of the Epistle to Barnabas). Their works include the “Didache”. Didache used as Christian teaching manual for new converts. “The Didache is considered part of the category of second-generation Christian writings known as the Apostolic Fathers”…

Forced out of their synagogues for several doctrinal disagreements, early Christians, who were predominately Jewish, began gathering in the only place they could for worship, each others homes. Although the exclusion from temple worship was meant to bring the new sect of Judaism known as Christianity to an end, the first century house church became an incubator for the infant faith. Communion being such an essential aspect of early Christian worship, breaking bread together was primarily their…

latter half of the second century around 160 by Montatius in a Christian church in Phrygia, Asia Minor. It is believed that, while in the house church, Montanist fell into a deep trace when the Spirit started speaking through him and he was helpless to resist it. Within ten years, the Montanist movement had attracted many followers include Priscilla and Maximilla, both of whom were active leaders in the movement. By 170, Montanism had spread to North Africa, Gaul and Rome. The emergence of the…

1.Describe the main challenges to Christianity in the first three centuries and how the Apostolic Fathers and the Apologists responded to each. One of the main challenges that faced Christianity in the first three centuries was Gnosticism. Cerinthus was one of the earliest Gnostic teacher and troublers during the 1st Century (28). Gnostics believed that each person possessed a special, higher spiritual knowledge (29), and that humans are made up of matter. One of the biggest arguments…

harm, then you shall pay life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.” This passage was a clear representation of what the law was to be but for Christians they needed to turn to the New Testament in order make their case because they are no longer under the Old Testament law like the Jews. So they found passages like Galatians 5:20, where the passage seems to be directly referring to abortion along with…