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Clement and the Early Church of Rome: On the Dating of Clement’s First Epistle to the Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Clement of Rome’s First Epistle to the Corinthians is a supremely valuable historical document. One of very few noncanonical Christian texts to reach us from the first century, it’s an early example of the exercise of hierarchical—and Roman—authority in the Church. Disciplinary in nature, Clement’s epistle speaks volumes about the life of the early church. The early Christians guarded the letter...

What is interesting about 1 Clement is that while it is a relatively rare example of first century Christian literature, its purpose and its ecclesiology are surprisingly clear. Since it explicitly says so, and there is no reason why the assertion should be doubted, 1 Clement was written in Rome and addressed to the Church in Corinth.2 Similarly, we know that the letter was written because news reached Rome that certain presbyters had been removed from
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