Apostolic Fathers

Many scholars observe that a main theme in the Shepherd of Hermas is the development of repentance. Few, however, have fully developed the concept from the viewpoint of the first-century audience. My thesis is that the unifying theme of the Shepherd is that all godly virtue is g…

The thesis of this dissertation is that the identity of catholic Christianity in the early second century was marked by a unified confession of the unique incarnational christological narrative, that is, the account of the Son/Logos who came from heaven, became incarnate, suffer…