First Christian Voices: Practices of the Apostolic Fathers

Chapter 8 Warnings Against Division and the Demonic

Chapter Summary Sometime after the martyrdom of Peter and Paul in Rome around AD 67, the church’s leaders wrote a letter to the church in Corinth. Having started in AD 49 or 50, the church in Corinth was well known for her faith. For who has ever visited you and not approved of your highly virtuous and stable faith? And who has not been astonished by your temperate and gentle piety in Christ? And who has not proclaimed the magnificent character of your hospitality? And who has not uttered a blessing for your perfect and unwavering knowledge? (1 Clement 1) Even so, the Corinthian church struggled with unity. The Roman church leaders’ primary concern was correcting the actions of those causing division in the Corinthian

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