TY - BOOK AU - Ferguson,Everett TI - The Early Church at Work and Worship T2 - Early Church at Work and Worship SN - 9780227903742 U1 - 270.1 23 KW - Worship KW - History KW - Early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Church history KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Christian life KW - Theology, Doctrinal KW - Christian literature, Early KW - History and criticism KW - RELIGION KW - 30-600 KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references; ""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"" UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/vu.edu.au?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1cgf18p ER -