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The early church did not descend from heaven on a golden string. Nor did it spring full-grown from the mind of Jesus or the apostles.The church emerged as the result of God's decisive action within a particular people, Israel, their story and their historical context. The focal point of this action was Jesus - his ministry, death and resurrection. But there were challenges, setbacks and conflict, as well as bursts of understanding, expansion and growth. While the main lines of this story display a remarkable unity, a closer examination also reveals a living diversity of cultures, perspectives and practices.'The Emergence of the Church' explores the story, weighs the issues and traces the contours of the early church's expansion and growth, life and practices, leadership and worship. Mindful of the questions of contemporary scholarship, Arthur Patzia provides a welcome primer on the church as it was in the first century and a foundation for considering how it should be in the twenty-first century.
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The story of the making of the New Testament is one in which scrolls bumped across cobbled Roman roads and pitched through rolling Mediterranean seas, finally finding their destinations in stuffy, dimly lit Christian house churches in Corinth or Colossae. There they were read aloud and reread, handled and copied, forwarded and collected, studied and treasured. And eventually they were brought together to make up our New Testament.This revised and expanded edition of The Making of the New Testament is a textbook introduction to the origin, collection, copying and canonizing of the New Testament documents. Like shrewd detectives reading subtle whispers of evidence, biblical scholars have studied the trail of clues and pieced together the story of these books.Arthur Patzia tells the story, answering our many questions:- How were books and documents produced in the first century?- What motivated the early Christians to commit teaching and narrative and vision to papyrus?- How were the stories and sayings of Jesus circulated, handed down and shaped into Gospels?- What do we know about ancient letter writing, secretaries and copy shops?- Why were four Gospels included instead of just one?- How were Paul's letters, sent here and there, gathered into a single collection?- Who decided - and by what criteria - which documents would be included in the New Testament?Explore these questions and more about these Scriptures whose everyday, gritty story rings true to their extraordinary message: the palpable mystery of the Word made flesh.