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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Table of contents
- Apostolic Manuals of the Early Church
- Copyright
- Contents
- The Didache
- Chapter I The Two Ways; The First Commandment
- Chapter II The Second Commandment: Grave Sin Forbidden
- Chapter III Other Sins Forbidden
- Chapter IV Various Precepts
- Chapter V The Way of Death
- Chapter VI Against False Teachers, and Food Offered to Idols
- Chapter VII Concerning Baptism
- Chapter VIII Fasting and Prayer (The Lord’s Prayer)
- Chapter IX The Thanksgiving (Eucharist)
- Chapter X Prayer After Communion
- Chapter XI Concerning Teachers, Apostles, and Prophets
- Chapter XII Reception of Christians
- Chapter XIII Support of Prophets
- Chapter XIV Christian Assembly on the Lord’s Day
- Chapter XV Bishops and Deacons; Christian Reproof
- Chapter XVI Watchfulness; The Coming of the Lord
- Didascalia Apostolorum
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII
- Chapter XVIII
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXI
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII
- Chapter XXIV
- Chapter XXV
- Chapter XXVI
- Apostolic Tradition
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- Part IV
- Later Additions