Keywords
Christian history, apostasy, early Christianity, covenant, ordinances
Abstract
While many LDS attempts to describe or explain the transformation of the Christian movement and its teachings in the early centuries in terms of an accommodation to Greek philosophy, this paper focuses on the first two Christian centuries and the early elimination of covenant thinking and practice that may have opened the door to Greek thought.
Original Publication Citation
“The Decline of Covenant in Early Christian Thought,” in Early Christians in Disarray, BYU Press and FARMS, 2005, 295–324.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Reynolds, Noel B., "The Decline of Covenant in Early Christian Thought" (2004). Faculty Publications. 1481.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/1481
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2004-11-11
Permanent URL
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/3455
Publisher
BYU Press
Language
English
College
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department
Political Science
Copyright Status
This is a pre-publication draft of the paper that appears in the published book as chapter 10. The copyright is held by the author, Noel B. Reynolds.
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