THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS: What Did They Teach?

EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN THE FIRST CENTURY by Edward D. Andrews will give its readers a thrilling account of first-century Christianity. When and how did they come to be called Christians? Who are all obligated to be Christian evangelists? In what way did Jesus set the example for our evangelism? What is the Kingdom of God? What was their worship like and why were they called the truth and the Way? How did 120 disciples at Pentecost grow to over one million within 70-80-years? What was meant by their witnessing to the ends of the earth? How did Christianity in its infancy function to accomplish all it did? How was it structured?

How were the early Christians, not of the world? How were they affected by persecution? How were they not to love the world, in what sense? What divisions were there in the second and third centuries? Who were the Gnostics? These questions will be answered, as well as a short overview of the division that grew out of the second and third centuries, pre-reformation, the reformation, and a summary of Catholicism and Protestantism. Andrews closes out with why we should not lose hope over the fact there are over 41,000 varieties of Christianity today. He also addresses how we can know if we are in the right Christian denomination.