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Book Description
- Title:
- The First Christian Century. Notes on Dr. Moffatt's Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament
- Author:
- William M. Ramsay [1851-1939]
- Publication Year:
- 1911
- Location:
- London
- Publisher:
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Pages:
- 195
- Subjects:
- Historicity, New Testament, Apologetics
- Copyright Holder:
- Public domain
Table of Contents
- General
- Literary Illustrations in Dr. Moffatt's Book
- Literature and History: A Difference in Method
- The First and Late Second Century
- The Personality of Papias and Polycarp
- Papias as Authority for the Early Deathg of John the Apostle
- The Supposed Early Death of John
- The Fascination of the Second Century
- The Argument from Accuracy of Local Details
- Exsamples of the "Imaginative Reconstruction" of the Past in Literature
- The Lawfulness of False Attribution in Literature
- The Growth of a Miracle
- The "Growing Consciousness of the Church"
- The Unity of the New Testament
- Order and Unifying Principle in the New Testament
- St. Paul as the Beginning of the New Testament
- St. Paul and St. John
- Incident and Teaching
- The Fourth Gospel and Its Author
- The "Semi-Pseudonymity" of First Peter
- The Study of Opinions
- Analogies from Classical Non-Christian Literature
- The South Galatian Question
- The Phygian Region of the Province of Galatia
- The Phrygian Language at Iconium
- Antioch a Galatian City
- The Political and Religious Importance of Pisidian Antioch
- A Greek Linguistic Argument
- Conclusion