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The coming weeks, Iโm going further back to the earliest surviving Christian writings, examining how these writers understood Israel, race, the nations, the Church, and the promises of God.
Series IVโVIIโข Didache, c. AD 60โ120
โข 1 & 2 Clement, c. AD 64โ70
โข Epistle of Barnabas, c. AD 70โ130
โข Ignatius of Antioch, c. AD 35โ108
After combing all of the Ante-Nicaea Fathers, we go back to Paul, Peter, Jamesโthose who were the closest to Christ.
This is therefore not a collection of quotations. It is an attempt to reconstruct the vocabulary and conceptual world of the earliest surviving Christian writers, beginning as close to the apostolic age as the remaining evidence allows and following those witnesses all the way toward Nicaea; before universalism took hold and the memory of those righteous martyrs, led like sheep to the slaughter were made as a burnt offering and was overshadowed by men who proclaimed to serve the same Lord over all.
Ad fontes.
