Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

The Early Church Fathers wrote that Luke was a physician in Antioch and an adherent of the Apostle Paul.

She was thus a principal agent — almost an embodiment — of the work of the Catholic Church during the Early Middle Ages in the construction of the religion-culture of western Europe.

*" Writings of the Early Church Fathers on Baptism "

Early in the year 1928 a second Measure ( known as the Prayer Book Measure 1928 ) was introduced in the Church Assembly, proposing to authorise the use of the Deposited Book of the previous year with certain amendments thereto which were set out in a Schedule to Measure.

There were many diverse Christian communities with wildly different Christologies, eschatologies, soteriologies, and cosmologies that existed alongside the " Early Church " which is itself a projected concept to indicate which communities were " proto-orthodox ," in that their views would become dominate.

* Gonzalez, Justo L. The Story of Christianity: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation, Harper Collins Publishers, New York ( 1984 ).

* Annotated Early History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( BOAP, 2000 )

The Apostolic Canons or Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles is a collection of ancient ecclesiastical decrees ( eighty-five in the Eastern, fifty in the Western Church ) concerning the government and discipline of the Early Christian Church, incorporated with the Apostolic Constitutions which are part of the Ante-Nicene Fathers

The History of Teachings of the Early Church, As a Basis for the Re-Union of Christendom ; Lectures.

The Chronicle of St. Jerome, in Early Church Fathers: Additional Texts.

* Early Church Fathers Includes text written by Cyril of Alexandria

* Early Church Fathers: Cyril of Alexandria

* This article only considers the mainstream Christian views, in contrast to, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Adventism, Early Christianity, Nontrinitarianism and others.

Although its canonical status was contested, its authenticity was never doubted by the Early Church.

The Chronicle of St. Jerome, in Early Church Fathers: Additional Texts.

The Early Church Fathers including Tertullian, Jerome, and Augustine state the Greek word is ambiguous and the women in 1 Corinthians 9: 5 were women ministering to the Apostles as women ministered to Christ ( cf Matthew 27: 55, Luke 8: 1-3 ), and were not wives, and assert they left their " offices of marriage " to follow Christ and to preach.

The existence of a highly treasured dominical sayings document in circulation going totally unmentioned by the Fathers of the Early Church, remains one of the great conundrums of Modern Biblical Scholarship.

Early Church Fathers.

In the Early Church those who presided over congregations were referred to variously as episcopos ( bishop ) or presbyteros ( priest ).

Early Christianity may be divided into 2 distinct phases: the apostolic period, when the first apostles were alive and led the Church, and the post-apostolic period, when an early episcopal structure developed, and persecution was periodically intense.

The doctrines of the apostles brought the Early Church into conflict with some Jewish religious authorities.

Though the Early Church used the Old Testament according to the canon of the Septuagint ( LXX ), the apostles did not otherwise leave a defined set of new scriptures ; instead the New Testament developed over time.

In Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, edited by Michael Loewe.

" In Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, ed.

), The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: the Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics, 2 vols.

* Rapp, Stephen H. ( 2003 ), Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts.

* Early Church Texts The Tome of Leo in Greek and Latin with English translation.

* Tertullian: Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts ( John Selby Watson's translation of 1853 ; also a translation of the Prologi of Trogus, by the webmaster Roger Pearse.

* Maximus the Confessor and his Companions ( Documents from Exile ) ( Oxford Early Christian Texts ).

The Blickling Homilies were first edited and translated in the 19th century by Richard Morris ( Early English Texts Society ).

* " The Early History of the Chou Li and Tso Chuan Texts ", Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 1931.

* Rapp, Stephen H. ( 2003 ), Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts.

Women in Early Christianity: Translations from Greek Texts, Catholic University America Press, 2005.

Women Deacons in the Early Church: Historical Texts and Contemporary Debates, Herder & Herder, 2002, 2006.

Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, pp. 115 – 116.

An Anthology of Jewish and Early Christian Texts, J. M.

Stone, Texts and Concordances of the Armenian Adam Literature ( Society of Biblical Literature: Early Judaism and its Literature, 12 ; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996 ) ( ISBN 0-7885-0278-6 ).

* M. R. James, The Biblical Antiquities of Philo ( Translations of Early Documents 1: Palestinian Jewish Texts ) London, 1917.

* Sacred Texts, Early Church Fathers-Chapter XX Of the Council at Sardica

" Guy de Warvich "); the English metrical romance exists in four versions dating from the early fourteenth century ; the text was edited by J. Zupitza ( 187. 51876 ) for the Early English Texts Society from Cambridge University Library, Paper MS. Ff.

* Rapp, Stephen H. ( 2003 ), Studies in Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts.

* Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America: Two Hundred and Fifty Tunes and Texts with an Introduction and Notes.

), Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, pp 94 – 99 ( Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China ) ISBN 1-55729-043-1.

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