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Apostolic Tradition, as this text is best known, was identified in the early years of the twentieth century as the work of Hippolytus, a Christian leader from third-century Rome. The text provides liturgical information of great antiquity, and as such has been massively influential on liturgical study and reform, especially in Western churches. Nonetheless, there have been a number of problems...
As noted in the introduction above, a three-year catechumenate is comparable to the length of time spent before admission to philosophical schools. This, beyond any other factor, such as cultural conflict between Christians from different parts of the Empire, theological debate between the schools or the influence of gnosticism,239 dictates the length and nature of this catechumenate. Bradshaw et al. suggest that this is a later addition to the text, again from the fourth century,240 since
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