Apostolic Manuals of the Early Church: The Didache, Didascalia Apostolorum, and Apostolic Tradition
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Apostolic Manuals of the Early Church: The Didache, Didascalia Apostolorum, and Apostolic Tradition

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Apostolic Manuals of the Early Church: The Didache, Didascalia Apostolorum, and Apostolic Tradition

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From the early church fathers, three foundational texts of faith and practice endure: the Didache, the Didascalia Apostolorum, and the Apostolic Tradition. Written to guide believers in worship, morality, and community life, these manuals reveal how the early Church understood the sacraments, prayer, charity, episcopal authority, and more. In these pages, Dear Reader, you will encounter the living heartbeat of apostolic Christianity—simple, disciplined, and aflame with reverence. These writings speak across the centuries with a voice both pastoral and commanding, uniting doctrine with daily devotion. Preserved through eras of persecution, upheaval, and renewal, these Apostolic Manuals open a window into the unity and order that shaped the earliest believers. They invite modern Christians to recover the rhythm of a Church that prayed with one heart, lived as one body, and believed as one mind under the Lordship of Christ.

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Publisher
TAN Books
eBook ISBN
9781505138870
Year
2026

Table of contents

  1. Apostolic Manuals of the Early Church
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. The Didache
  5. Chapter I The Two Ways; The First Commandment
  6. Chapter II The Second Commandment: Grave Sin Forbidden
  7. Chapter III Other Sins Forbidden
  8. Chapter IV Various Precepts
  9. Chapter V The Way of Death
  10. Chapter VI Against False Teachers, and Food Offered to Idols
  11. Chapter VII Concerning Baptism
  12. Chapter VIII Fasting and Prayer (The Lord’s Prayer)
  13. Chapter IX The Thanksgiving (Eucharist)
  14. Chapter X Prayer After Communion
  15. Chapter XI Concerning Teachers, Apostles, and Prophets
  16. Chapter XII Reception of Christians
  17. Chapter XIII Support of Prophets
  18. Chapter XIV Christian Assembly on the Lord’s Day
  19. Chapter XV Bishops and Deacons; Christian Reproof
  20. Chapter XVI Watchfulness; The Coming of the Lord
  21. Didascalia Apostolorum
  22. Chapter I
  23. Chapter II
  24. Chapter III
  25. Chapter IV
  26. Chapter V
  27. Chapter VI
  28. Chapter VII
  29. Chapter VIII
  30. Chapter IX
  31. Chapter X
  32. Chapter XI
  33. Chapter XII
  34. Chapter XIII
  35. Chapter XIV
  36. Chapter XV
  37. Chapter XVI
  38. Chapter XVII
  39. Chapter XVIII
  40. Chapter XIX
  41. Chapter XX
  42. Chapter XXI
  43. Chapter XXII
  44. Chapter XXIII
  45. Chapter XXIV
  46. Chapter XXV
  47. Chapter XXVI
  48. Apostolic Tradition
  49. Part I
  50. Part II
  51. Part III
  52. Part IV
  53. Later Additions