About the Book
This book consists of articles from Wikia. Pages: 82. Chapters: Births, Christian history, Deaths, End times, Time Period, Apostolic Fathers, Church Fathers, Council of Jerusalem, Creed, Crusade, Divine grace, Great Schism, History of Christianity, Iconoclasm, Ottoman Empire, Papal States, Protestant Reformation, The Evangelical Christian Church in Canada, Twelve Apostles, 144,000, Amillennialism, Annihilationism, Antichrist, Armageddon, Beast of Revelation, Bema seat, Book of Revelation, Dispensationalism, Elijah List, Endtime Ministries, Eschatology, Gehenna, Great White Throne, Hades, Heaven, Hell, Irvin Baxter, Jr., Kingdom of God, Lake of fire, Last days, Man of sin, Mark of the Beast, Millennial Kingdom, Postmillennialism, Premillennialism, Purgatory, Rapture, Rapture Ready, Resurrection, Second Coming, Sheol, Tartarus, Temple in Jerusalem, Tribulation, Universalism, World government, 1981 Pope John Paul II assassination attempt, Iudaea Province, World War I, Beginning of time, Intertestamental period, Renaissance. Excerpt: The Apostolic Fathers "consists of persons and documents that interpreted and applied the apostolic message in the first apostleless generation..." (Olson, The Story of Christian Theology, p. 41). They were acknowledged as leaders in the early church because of their close connections with the Apostles (e.g. Peter, Paul, John etc.). Thus, they provide a link between the Apostles who knew Jesus and the later generation of Christian apologists and defenders of Christian orthodoxy. The list of Fathers included under this section varies. Agreed on by all church historians are: Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, the Didache (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles), Epistle of Barnabas and Shepherd of Hermas. It is important to note that most church historians actually call certain documents (e.g. the Didache "Church Fathers"). Others find their way to this list, such as the so-called Second Letter of Clement, the Martyrdom of Polycarp, the Epistle to Dio...
