Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1. Images of the Church in Early Christian Literature""; ""2. Attitudes to Schism at the Council of Nicaea""; ""3. A Note on Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses IV.8.3""; ""4. Ordination in the Ancient Church, I: Greek, Roman, and Jewish Backgrounds""; ""5. Ordination in the Ancient Church, II: The Ceremony of Ordination""; ""6. Ordination in the Ancient Church, III: Ordination in the Second and Third Centuries""; ""7. Ordination and the Early Church, IV: Ordination in the First Century""
  • ""8. Selection and Installation to Office in Roman, Greek, Jewish, and Christian Antiquity""""9. Jewish and Christian Ordination: Some Observations""; ""10. Qumran and Codex D""; ""11. Origen and the Election of Bishops""; ""12. Eusebius and Ordination""; ""13. Laying on of Hands: Its Significance in Ordination""; ""14. The Covenant Idea in the Second Century""; ""15. Justin Martyr on Jews, Christians, and the Covenant""; ""16. Canon Muratori: Date and Provenance""; ""17. The Muratorian Fragment and the Canon: Review of Hahneman""; ""18. Pseudepigraphy: Post-Canonical Letters""
  • ""19. Factors Leading to the Selection and Closure of the New Testament Canon""""Bibliography""; ""Back Cover""