Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Lots of pencil underlining. Year 1941. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The book of Acts was written before the end of the first century and has been followed by innumerable works on the history of the church. It is strange however that while the subject has been studied minutely in all its phases and from every conceivable point of view the question has seldom been raised of what the church is in its essential nature. The im-portance or even the possibility of this question has been rec-ognized only in our own day and various answers to it have been put forward. None of them it seems to the present writer is fully adequate. The church however it may resemble other societies ancient or modern is a unique creation and can be explained only from something unique in the Christian message. An attempt is made in this book to determine how the church was related to the message as it was understood by the first disciples in the days immediately following the Lord’s departure. It was then that the church arose and the secret of its formative idea must be sought in that crucial period when it came into being. The primitive church often has been compared to a tiny rill which was expanded in the course of time by many tribu-taries until it grew into a mighty river. This analogy is alto-gether misleading for in a real sense the church was most fully itself at the very outset. (SP)