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  • 5 - The Twelve Apostles

  • Markus Vinzent, King's College London
  • Book:
    Resetting the Origins of Christianity
    Published online:
    30 December 2022
    Print publication:
    12 January 2023, pp 192-247

  • Summary

    Irenaeus’ view is condensed in the collection that he brought together, combining the Book of Acts with the so-called Catholic Letters (= the Praxapostolos). Placed after the four Gospels, it endorses a neatless development from Jesus and his early followers through the early days of growth of the church in its emancipation from its Jewish beginnings. With Paul’s letters in a revised version that was made to fit the Gospels and the Praxapostolos this fiction of a continuous, rapid and Spirit-guided growth was linked to the success-story of the Church in contra-distinction to the miseries and decline of the Jewish community and the vain attempts at undermining the Church by the develish heretics.