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The Didache is one of the earliest Christian writings. It provides practical instructions on how a Christian community can function, and offers unique insights into the way the earliest Christians lived and worshipped. In this highly readable introduction, Thomas O’Loughlin tells the intriguing story of the Didache, from its discovery in the late nineteenth century to the present. He then...
becomes as our most detailed insight into the life of those early churches. A second reason many people study the Didache is a special refinement of the notion of context. When we set aside the Gospels and Acts, most of the documents that we have from the first and early second centuries are letters: those of Paul; those attributed to Paul; then those linked with the names of James, Jude, John, Peter; then the letter to the Corinthians we call 1 Clement; and then the letters of Ignatius of Antioch.
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