The Beginnings of the ChurchThe Beginnings of the Church is a brief and marvelously readable summary of the dramatic shifts that have taken place in the way scholars understand the first generations of the Christian church. |
Contents
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Chapter | 20 |
Chapter Three | 38 |
Chapter Four | 65 |
Chapter Five | 100 |
Chapter | 130 |
Chapter Seven | 147 |
Chapter Eight | 181 |
Chapter Nine | 195 |
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