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This study contends that the Shepherd of Hermas, a non-canonical early Christian document generally classified among the writings called the Apostolic Fathers, has been wrongly understood by most scholars as typifying the traits of “early Catholicism.” The document is more accurately understood as being Jewish Christian. The study deals first with the authorship and date of the Shepherd of Hermas, concluding that it was written by a single author in the last two decades of the first century. The greater part of the book deals with Hermas’s pneumatology, that is, his understanding of the Holy Spirit. It shows that it is derived from Judaism, specifically from the type of Judaism evidenced in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Leaves much to be debated. Other Religion-Patristics & Early Christianity Books 2015 – English Translation and Commentary on Origo Constantini Imperatoris/ How Constantine Became Emperor (the Anonymus Valesianus: Pars Prior) Together with a Critical Textual Analysis of the Later Christian Interpretations 1996 – Idea of Universal History From Hellenistic Philosophy to Early Christian Historiography 2018 – AFROCENTRIC INTERPRETATIONS OF PAUL AND THE PAULINE TRADITION:Things That Black Scholars See That White Scholars Do Not See
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