Texts to read

from R.E.Brown:

• The Sub-Apostolic Era
• Pastoral Epistles
• Colossians/Ephesians
• Luke/Acts: The Spirit
• 1 Peter: People of God
• Bld Disciple (4th Gospel)
• Johannine Epistles
• Church in Matthew

Our Sequence of Topics
please see the relevant chapters in
____R.E.B., The churches the apostles left behind; and
____R. Schnackenburg: The church in the New Testament

• 1. Early Christian community in the Acts of the Aps
• 2. The Church seen in 1 and 2 Corinthians[+ article]
• 3. Ministries according to Paul
• 4. The Church in the Sub-Apostolic Era
• 5. Ministries in the Pastoral Epistles
• 6. Church Imagery in Colossians/Ephesians
• 7. Church in Matthew: Community and Leaders
• 8. Spirit-guided Merciful Community, in Luke
• 9. "The People of God" in 1 Peter
• 10. Disciples of Jesus, in the 4th Gospel
• 11. The Church as reflected in 1 Clement
• 12. Episcopal Church, in Ignatius of Antioch

Clement of Rome: Letter to the Corinthians
Letters of Ignatius of Antioch
J.S. Romanides: The Ecclesiology Of St. Ignatius Of Antioch