From Christ to Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the Church in Less than a Century (Biblia.com)

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How did the movement founded by Jesus transform more in the first seventy-five years after his death than it has in the two thousand years since? From Christ to Christianity offers an informative and understandable summary of the development of Christianity in the New Testament and post-Apostolic eras. James Edwards tells the story of how the Christian movement—which began as relatively...

Jesus, “new wine” required “new wineskins” (Mark 2:22), and that metaphor illustrated the essence of an unchanging constant within changing forms. Four additional words of explanation may aid in profitably reading this book. First, as already noted, the Apostolic Fathers represent the terminal point of our investigation.10 The dates of the documents in the Fathers are only roughly determinable, so the terminal point of the corpus as a whole remains approximate

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