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To indicate the way of development of the ancient church orders the term "living literature" [7] has been proposed by Bruce M. Metzger and Paul F. Bradshaw (and others) in order to note that these texts, of which only a part survived, were updated and amended generation after generation, mixing ancient parts with materials from the contemporary ...
The Apostolic Tradition (or Egyptian Church Order) is an early Christian treatise which belongs to the genre of the ancient Church Orders. It has been described to be of "incomparable importance as a source of information about church life and liturgy in the third century".
Ancient Church Orders are Christian documents from 1st to 5th century AD offering rules on about moral conduct, liturgy and ecclesiastic organization. Pages in category "Ancient church orders" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The Apostolic Constitutions or Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (Latin: Constitutiones Apostolorum) is a Christian collection divided into eight books which is classified among the Church Orders, a genre of early Christian literature, that offered authoritative pseudo-apostolic prescriptions on moral conduct, liturgy and Church organization. [1]
The Apostolic Church-Ordinance usually is found also in ancient collections of Church Orders. It is the second book in the Verona Palimpsest , it is the first book in the Alexandrine Sinodos and in the Bohairic version of the Clementine Octateuch , while the Arabic version of the Clementine Octateuch has it in the second place, and the Syriac ...
The Alexandrine Sinodos (or Clementine Heptateuch) is a Christian collection of Church Orders. [1] This collection of earlier texts dates from the 4th or 5th century CE. The provenance is Egypt and it was particularly used in the ancient Coptic and Ethiopian Christianity .
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The most ancient collections of canonical legislation are certain very early Apostolic documents, known as the Church Orders: for instance, the Didache ton dodeka apostolon or "Teaching of the Twelve Apostles", which dates from the end of the first or the beginning of the 2nd century; the Apostolic Church-Ordinance; the Didascalia, or "Teaching ...