Browsing by Subject "Fathers of the church"

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    • The Pastoral Theology of the Apostolic Fathers 

      Brown, Leland, Davis (School of Theology, 2024-05)
      This dissertation argues that early Christianity possessed a stable and unified theology of pastoral identity and work. Historic studies of early Christian leadership sought to justify present ecclesiological structures ...

    • Patterns of Shared Leadership in the Apostolic Fathers 

      Vester, Zachariah Lee (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015-03-31)
      While the cumulative history of the early church paints a trajectory towards a strict form of vertical, hierarchical leadership, at least five patterns of shared leadership emerge throughout the Apostolic Fathers that make ...