Didache

within Christian churches come from Jewish Origins (Religion: Christianity). These include“early Christian prayers” which “ are quotations or adaptations from Jewish originals.” Some of these prayers were taken from the Apostolic Constitutions and the Didache. Of all of the prayers that come from Judaism, the one that is most commonly known is “The Lord’s Prayer (“Our Father which art in heaven”).” The Lord’s Prayer includes three things that are seen within Jewish Prayers: praise, petition, and…

principle is abortion. Rights and responsibility mean having a right to life. Abortion is not giving anything a right to have life. “The Catholic Church has always condemned abortion as a grave evil. Christian writers from the first-century author of the Didache to Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae ("The Gospel of Life") have maintained that the Bible forbids abortion, just as it forbids murder. ”…

In this section, I will introduce Irenaeus the person, his background, major work, and his knowledge of or at least a familiarity with Justin’s works, Ignatius’s works, Polycarp, and the Didache to show theological continuity in regards to the Eucharist. The introduction serves to place Irenaeus in his context and how his context influences his Eucharistic theology. Eucharistic Passages in Adversus Haereses In this section, I will analyze the Eucharistic passages in AH. I will evaluate…

In the span of fifteen hundred years, Eastern and Western Christianity had comparatively been influenced by Jesus’ teachings. The ideology of Jesus Christ included his virginal birth, his death, and resurrection. With this in mind, some of the important reoccurring issues in understanding both concerns for the East and West are founded in the sacramental and liturgical practices. Christ’s death and “resurrection became koinonia: or communion, fellowship, or the church [p. 33, Vol. 1].” The…

During the first decade of Christianity, Christians followed Jewish traditions and went to synagogue with those who had not converted to Christianity. They attended temple daily and celebrated the Sabbath as they always had. Up to about 20 years after Christ’s death Christians had to be converts to Judaism before converting to Christianity. It took the temple being destroyed in 70 a.d. to show the early Christians that they were separate from the Jewish people. They realized that Jesus was the…

Worship is God’s initiative to self-disclose to humanity through God’s redemptive acts of love, that amaze us, and invite us to respond in awe, humility, and gratitude while ascribing honor and worth to the one and true God that engages us in a covenantal relationship of love and obedience and gives us the hope of recreation. Worship is the product of experiencing God’s numinous, because God’s love, grace, and mercy are revealed to us. At that precise moment, our eyes are opened, and a…

In the early Christian church the canon was developed over a period of 250-300 years. Before the written canon was developed the majority of the gospel was shared by word of mouth through teachers. This was not uncommon for this period. One of the main reasons why the gospel was spread through oral tradition is because writing was clumsy and expensive to produce. Once papyrus became economical, and widespread use began, written texts exploded much like the internet has done to knowledge today.…

was composed for a mixed community of Jewish and Gentile Christians in the Syrian city of Antioch. (18) The reason Matthew chose Antioch is because that city had a large Jewish community which lived in harmony with its Gentile neighbours. Also, the Didache (which is an ancient Syrian document) and St. Ignatius of Antioch…

Christianity altered the direction of human events. At the point when Christianity initially began, the entire Roman Empire attempted to kill it off and Nero accused the fall of Rome on Christians. When Constantine made the Edict of Milan, legalized Christianity in Rome, it changed everything, and Christian impact spread quickly all throughout the realm, and the Christian philosophy of peace made individuals withdraw from fighting, which was huge income in the Empire. The stopping of wars…

The writings of the New Testament have survived thousands of years due to the work of faithful believers and scribes who copied the Christian works that we treasure today. During their day, these people would use a variety of resources as writing surfaces, including wood, bone, broken pottery, and parchment. However, the most important within the New Testament period would be papyrus, a fifteen-foot stalk harvested from the Nile area. These stalks were cleaned, flatten, and cut into strips that…