The Growth of Church Institutions - Paperback

by Edwin Hatch (Author)

This work is an endeavor to give answers to questions which are asked in regard to the apparently wide differences between the primitive and modern forms of some Christian institutions. The book is designed for the general reader and can be considered a popularized form of his Bampton Lectures, 'The Organization of the Early Christian Churches'.

Author Biography

Edwin Hatch (1835-1889), a gifted historian of early Christianity, served as Vice Principal of St. Mary's Hall
(Oxford) and Reader in Ecclesiastical History at Oxford. His Bampton Lectures, 'The Organization of the Early Christian Churches', are a landmark in the study of the origins of the Christian ministry.