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Diadche: 1st and 2nd Century Christians The objective of this study is to answer the questions of based on the Didache, what are the most important concerns for 1st and 2nd Century Christians and is there a present and emerging hierarchy within early Christianity? The Didache is also known as the "Teachings of the Lord by the Twelve Apostles." The Didache is a manual of conduct and worship written during the first century and is a collection of writings that was formulated on the earliest of beliefs and traditions of Christianity and Judaism as well as being inclusive of the Old and New Testaments. It is unfortunate that modern church members have literally no knowledge of the Didache. Core teaching of the Didache are known as the 'two ways' or the ways of life and death. It is related that the controversies created by the Didache are many and are such that continue even until the present day. The controversies surround such things as tensions between the Jewish and Christian beliefs, the baptism, the Eucharist and other such subject matter that opposes between the two beliefs. The structure of the text in the Didache is reported...

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The four sections are stated to include: (1) The Two Ways document which forms Chapters 1 though 7; (2) a liturgical treatise which forms chapters 7 through 10; (2) a treatise on church organization which is comprised by chapters 11 through 15 and a later expansion; and (4) an eschatological section comprised by chapter 16. (Emilio, nd, paraphrased) It is additionally reported that the Didache can be divided into "distinct categories of teachings and insights that resemble a kind of systematic theology" and which includes: (1) Church doctrines; (2) doctrine of the Trinity; (3) worship; (4) eschatology; (5) doctrine of sin; (6) the law; and (7) the person of Jesus Christ. (Emilio, nd, p.11)The Didache is clear on the subject abortion stating: "You shall not murder a child, whether by abortion of killing it once it is born." (Didache 2:2; cited in: Emilio, nd, p. 13) The ceremonies of baptism and the Lord's Supper are also at focus in the Didache as is baptism. The Didache is additionally focused on the return of Christ in the future. There is a clear…

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Emilio, K. (nd) THE DIDACHE -- "Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles": A Theology for the Early Church. Theology One Bite at a Time. Remnant Report. Retrieved from: http://remnantreport.com/impdf/didache-01.pdf

Horner, T. (1997) Jews and Judaism in Christian Writings of the Second Century CE. 2007 Archive Edition. The Ecole Initiative. Retrieved from: http://ecole.evansville.edu/articles/earlyrel.html#did


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