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Wednesday
Oct062021

Theological Term of the Week: Apostolic Fathers

apostolic fathers
“[T]he authors of the earliest Christian writings which came next after the New Testament.”1

  • From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. H. Needham, page 58: 
  • The name [apostolic fathers] was invented in the 17th Century, when scholars believed that these early Christian writers all had direct personal contact with the apostles; most historians today think that only a few of them did… The age of the apostolic fathers stretched only from about AD 95 to 140.

 

Learn more:

  1. Got Questions: Who were the Apostolic Fathers?
  2. Theopedia: Apostolic Fathers

 

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Filed under Christian History

1From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. R. Needham.


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