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The authors of this volume explore the notion of community as reflected upon in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. Various aspects are dealt with, including concerns for organising the community, developing a sacramental and liturgical praxis, constructing identity against outsiders, spreading the Christian message, and building towards a better community. The interplay between ideal and reality in the sources offers some reliable information about day-to-day concerns and concrete situations in Christian communities from the end of the first century up to about 150 CE.

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.. .The volume constitutes a substantial contribution to the study of early second-century Christianity. Indded, many of the papers collected here will be required reading for specialists in the field. The editors and contributors are to be thanked for producing an immportant volume that addresses many significant issues in early Christian texts that are still too rarely the object of such high level scholarship as we find here. --Maathijs den Dulk, Radboud University Nijmegen, Review of Biblical Literature 10.5.2017

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"Geboren 1984; 2002-08 Studium der Theologie und Religionswissenschaft in Leiden, Oxford und Leuven; 2013 Dr. theol. (KU Leuven); 2019 Dr. theol. habil. und PD (ALU Freiburg); derzeit Akademischer Rat und Privatdozent mit einer venia legendi für die Fachgebiete ""Neues Testament"" und ""Frühchristliche Literatur"" am Arbeitsbereich Neutestamentliche Literatur und Exegese an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau; 2020 mit dem Manfred-Fuchs-Preis der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften ausgezeichnet. is Professor of New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the KU Leuven."

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