Joseph H. Hellerman

'When the Church Was a Family'

Bog | Engelsk

Spiritual formation occurs primarily in the context of community. But as the modern cultural norm of what social scientists call "radical American individualism" extends itself, many Christians grow lax in their relational accountability to the

'The Ancient Church as Family'

Bog | Engelsk

The author explores the literature of the first three centuries of the church in terms of group identity and formation as surrogate kinship. Why did this become the organizing model in the earliest churches? How did historical developments intervene to sh