The Apostolic Fathers, A New Translation and Commentary, Volume II - Paperback

by Robert M. Grant (Author), Holt H. Graham (Author)

This is the second in a new six volume translation of and commentary on the works of the Apostolic Fathers. The writings of these men, which immediately follow the books of the New Testament, make up a body of literature that provides indispensable source material for the study of the formation of the Christian Church. Interest in the early Church is higher today than ever before. Theologians, religious authorities, students, and historians find the initial stages of Church development relevant to the contemporary structure of the Church. Volume 2, First and Second Clement, provides translation of and commentary on two of the best-known writings of the Apostolic Fathers. The First Letter of Clement or, more accurately, the letter of the Roman Church to the Corinthian community, provides a significant mixture of scriptural and non-scriptural motifs. The so-called Second Letter of Clement is neither a letter nor by Clement. Actually it is a sermon which deals first with self-control and more generally with exhorting the hearers to repentance and thereby to salvation and life. Not until the rise of historical scholarship in the nineteenth century could its real importance begin to be adequately assessed.

Author Biography

Robert M. Grant, Divinity School, University of Chicago, is one of the nation's leading Protestant theological scholars. A native of the Chicago area, he attended Northwestern University, Episcopal Theological School, Union Theological Seminary, and Harvard University. Among the titles to his credit are The Bible in the Church, The Earliest Lives of Jesus, Gnosticism: An Anthology, and A Historical Introduction to the New Testament.



Holt H. Graham is professor of New Testament, Virginia Theological Seminary. His education includes an M.A, from Columbia University, a Th.D. from Union Theological Seminary and an S.T.D. from Seabury Western Theological Seminary. He is president and book review editor of the Anglican Theological Review.