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The Apostles

The Apostles

by Ernest Renan

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Author
Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892
Credits
Produced by KD Weeks, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
BS: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: The Bible, Old and New Testament
Subject
Apostles
Category
Text
eBook-No.
45081
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45081
Release Date
March 8, 2014
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Transcriber’s Note — THE APOSTLES.
  2. 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  3. 3.INTRODUCTION. CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.
  4. 4.CHAPTER I. FORMATION OF BELIEFS RELATIVE TO THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS.—THE APPARITIONS AT JERUSALEM.
  5. 5.CHAPTER II. DEPARTURE OF THE DISCIPLES FROM JERUSALEM.—SECOND GALILEAN LIFE OF JESUS.
  6. 6.CHAPTER III. RETURN OF THE APOSTLES TO JERUSALEM.—END OF THE PERIOD OF APPARITIONS.
  7. 7.CHAPTER IV. DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT; ECSTATICAL AND PROPHETICAL PHENOMENA.
  8. 8.CHAPTER V. FIRST CHURCH OF JERUSALEM; ITS CHARACTER CENOBITICAL.
  9. 9.CHAPTER VI. THE CONVERSION OF THE HELLENISTIC JEWS AND PROSELYTES.
  10. 10.CHAPTER VII. THE CHURCH CONSIDERED AS AN ASSOCIATION OF POOR PEOPLE.—INSTITUTION OF THE DIACONATE.—DEACONESSES AND WIDOWS.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. FIRST PERSECUTION.—DEATH OF STEPHEN.—DESTRUCTION OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF JERUSALEM.
  12. 12.CHAPTER IX. FIRST MISSIONS.—PHILIP THE DEACON.
  13. 13.CHAPTER X. CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL.
  14. 14.CHAPTER XI. PEACE AND INTERIOR DEVELOPMENTS OF THE CHURCH OF JUDEA.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XII. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHURCH OF ANTIOCH.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. THE IDEA OF AN APOSTOLATE TO THE GENTILES.—SAINT BARNABAS.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIV. PERSECUTION OF HEROD AGRIPPA THE FIRST.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XV. MOVEMENTS PARALLEL TO AND IMITATIVE OF CHRISTIANITY—SIMON OF GITTO.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVI. GENERAL PROGRESS OF THE CHRISTIAN MISSIONS.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVII. STATE OF THE WORLD IN THE FIRST CENTURY.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII. RELIGIOUS LEGISLATION OF THE PERIOD.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XIX. THE FUTURE OF MISSIONS.
  23. 23.NOTES. — Transcriber’s Note

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