The Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries

Early Church by 
Thomas Lindsay

The Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries; Lectures is to portray the organized life of the Christian Society as that was lived in the thousands of little communities formed by the proclamation of the Gospel of our Lord during the first three centuries. The method of description has been to select writings which seemed to reveal that life most clearly, and to group round the central sources of information illustrative evidence, contemporary or other. The principle of selection has been to take, as the central authorities, those writings which, when carefully examined, reveal the greatest number of details.