Christian texts Christian texts The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith was written by Calvinistic Baptists in England to give a formal expression of the Reformed and Protestant Christian faith with an obvious Baptist perspective. This confession, like The Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) and the Savoy Declaration (1658), was written by evangelical Puritans who were concerned that their particular church organisation reflect what they perceived to be Biblical teaching. ...more on Wikipedia about "1689 Baptist Confession of Faith"
2 Esdras (sometimes also referred to as Ezra Shaltiel) is a Jewish Christian apocalypse written toward the end of the first century AD. It is not accepted as scriptural by most Christians; therefore, they count it among the apocrypha. However, the Ethiopian Orthodox and Russian Orthodox consider it canonical, and it was often cited by the Fathers of the Church. ...more on Wikipedia about "2 Esdras"
Among the Dead Sea scrolls, 7Q5 is the designation for a papyrus fragment discovered in Cave 7 of the Qumran community. The significance of this fragment is derived from an argument made by José O’Callaghan in his work ¿Papiros neotestamentarios en la cueva 7 de Qumrân? in 1972, later reasserted and expanded by German scholar Carsten Peter Thiede in his work The Earliest Gospel Manuscript? in 1982. The assertion is that the previously unidentified 7Q5 is actually a fragment of the Gospel of Mark, chapter 6 verse 52-53. The illustration below gives a clear picture of how much text is conserved on the fragment 7Q5. ...more on Wikipedia about "7Q5"
The text of the pseudepigraphical Acts of Barnabas claims to identify its author as " John Mark," the companion of Paul, as if writing an account of Barnabas, the Cypriot Jew who was a member of the earliest church at Jerusalem; through the services of Barnabas the convert Saul was welcomed into the apostolic community. Three pseudepigraphical works are linked with the name of Barnabas: the Epistle of Barnabas, written between AD 70 and 135, this Acts and the medieval forgery Gospel of Barnabas. None of them were accepted into the Biblical canon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acts of Barnabas"
The Acts of Paul is one of the major works from the New Testament apocrypha, and thought to have been written at the end of the second century. The Acts were considered orthodox by Hippolytus, but were eventually regarded as heretical when the Manichaeans started using the texts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acts of Paul"
The logia agrapha (Greek for "unwritten words") refers to the sayings of Jesus Christ that are not found found in the canonical Gospels of the Bible but are found in other New Testament or early Christian writings. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agrapha of Jesus"
The Apocalypse of Paul is one of the texts of the New Testament apocrypha. There is a version of the Apocalypse which features the Virgin Mary in the place of Paul, as the receiver of the vision, known as the Apocalypse of the Virgin. The text is not to be confused with the gnostic Apocalypse of Paul, which is unlikely to be related. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apocalypse of Paul"
The recovered Apocalypse of Peter or Revelation of Peter is extant in two translations of a lost original, one Greek, one Ethiopic, which diverge considerably. The Greek manuscript was unknown at first hand, until it was discovered during excavations under Sylvain Grébaut during the 1886-87 season in a desert necropolis at Akhmim in Upper Egypt. The fragment consisted of parchment leaves of the Greek version in the grave of a Christian monk of the 8th or 9th century. The manuscript is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. An Ethiopic version was discovered in 1910. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apocalypse of Peter"
The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius is a 7th-century apocalypse that shaped the eschatological imagination of Christendom throughout the Middle Ages. The work was written in Syriac in the late 7th century, in reaction to the Islamic conquest of the Near East, and is falsely attributed to the 4th-century Church Father Methodius of Olympus. It depicts many familiar Christian eschatological themes: the rise and rule of Antichrist, the invasions of Gog and Magog, and the tribulations that precede the end of the world. Entirely new was its legend of the Messiah-like Last Roman Emperor, who would be a central figure in apocalyptic literature until the end of the medieval period. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius"
The Apocalypse of Stephen is one of the New Testament apocrypha's texts, the Stephen in question being one of the 7 deacons to the Apostles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apocalypse of Stephen"
The Apocalypse of Thomas (i.e. vision) is a work from the New Testament apocrypha, apparently composed originally in Latin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apocalypse of Thomas"
Apocrypha is a Greek word (απόκρυφα, neuter plural of απόκρυφος), from αποκρυπτειν, to hide away. Thus it connotes the idea of "closed" or "hidden." (In this sense apocrypha is in contrast with apocalypse, which means "opened," "revealed," or "uncovered.") Apocryphon is the singular noun, apocrypha the plural noun, and apocryphal the adjective. These words are used to describe the character of a certain class of religiously oriented ancient writings. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apocrypha"
The Secret Book of John (Apocryphon of John) are two distinct 2nd century gnostic texts of secret teachings, which are given a Christian context: "the teaching of the saviour, and the revelation of the mysteries and the things hidden in silence, even these things which he taught John, his disciple", are its opening words. John is immediately specified as "John, the brother of James— who are the sons of Zebedee". One of the two distinct versions is thought to be the original on which the other was a large embellishment. The later version is also restructured to the extent that although both versions have the same themes, there is very little of the words and verses in common between them. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apocryphon of John"
Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Latin, "A defence of one's life") is the classic defence of the religious opinions of John Henry Newman, published in 1864 in response to what he saw as an unwarranted attack on Roman Catholic doctrine by Charles Kingsley. Kingsley had strongly suggested that Newman was representative of a line of Roman Catholic theologians who had distorted the truth, writing in Macmillan's Magazine "Truth, for its own sake had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. Father Newman informs us that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be". ...more on Wikipedia about "Apologia Pro Vita Sua"
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The Apostles' Creed (in Latin, Symbolum Apostolorum), is an early statement of Christian belief, possibly from the first or second century, but more likely post- Nicene Creed in the early 4th Century AD. The theological specifics of the creed appear to be a refutation of Gnosticism, an early heresy. The Apostles' Creed is widely used by a number of Christian denominations for both liturgical and catechetical purposes, most visibly by liturgical churches of Western tradition, including Roman (Latin-rite) Catholic churches, Lutheran churches, member churches of the Anglican Communion, and Western Orthodox denominations. It is also used by evangelical Protestant denominations such as Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists and many Baptists. It is not used by Southern Baptists, who consider themselves to be a non-credal churches. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apostles' Creed"
From John William Donaldson's introduction: "There has always existed a great diversity of opinion as to the author and date of the Apostolical Constitutions. Earlier writers were inclined to assign them to the apostolic age, and to Clement; but much discussion ensued, and the questions to which they give rise are still unsettled. The most peculiar opinion in regard to them is that of Whiston, who devoted a volume (vol. iii.) of his Primitive Christianity Revived to prove that "they are the most sacred of the canonical books of the New Testament; "for "these sacred Christian laws or constitutions were delivered at Jerusalem, and in Mount Sion, by our Saviour to the eleven apostles there assembled after His resurrection."" ...more on Wikipedia about "Apostolic Constitutions"
Articles of faith are formal creeds, or lists of beliefs, sometimes numbered, and often beginning with "We believe...", which attempt to more or less define the fundamental theology of a given religion and/or church. Articles of faith are common in both Christianity and Islam. ...more on Wikipedia about "Articles of Faith"
The Articles of Religion are an official doctrinal statement of American Methodism. Adapted by John Wesley from the Thirty-Nine Articles of Anglicanism, they are found in paragraph 103 of The United Methodist Book of Discipline and have remained relatively unchanged since 1808 (save for a few additional articles added in later years). ...more on Wikipedia about "Articles of Religion (Methodist)"
The Athanasian Creed (Quicunque vult) is a statement of Christian doctrine traditionally ascribed to St. Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria, who lived in the 4th century. However most of today's historians agree that in all probability it was originally written in Latin, not in Greek, and thus Athanasius cannot have been the original author. Its theology is closely akin to that found in the writing of western theologians, especially Ambrose of Milan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Athanasian Creed"
A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, Prepared and Enjoined by Order of the Third Council of Baltimore (or, simply, the Baltimore Catechism) was the de facto standard Catholic school text in the United States from 1885 to the 1960s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baltimore Catechism"
The Bay Psalm Book was the first book printed in British North America. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bay Psalm Book" Be happy with www.shortopedia.com
The Biblical canon is an exclusive list of books written during the formative period of the Jewish or Christian faiths; the leaders of these communities believed these books to be inspired by God or to express the authoritative history of the relationship between God and his people (although there may have been secondary considerations as well). ...more on Wikipedia about "Biblical canon"
The Book of Common Order, sometimes called The Order of Geneva or Knox's Liturgy, is a directory for public worship in the Reformed Church in Scotland. In 1557 the Scottish Protestant lords in council enjoined the use of the English Common Prayer, i.e. the Second Book of Edward VI of 1552. Meanwhile, at Frankfurt, among British Protestant refugees, a controversy was going on between the upholders of the English liturgy and the French Reformed Order of Worship respectively. By way of compromise John Knox and other ministers drew up a new liturgy based upon earlier Continental Reformed Services, which was not deemed satisfactory, but which on his removal to Geneva he published in 1556 for the use of the English congregations in that city. ...more on Wikipedia about "Book of Common Order"
The Book of Common Prayer is the prayer book of the Church of England and also the name for similar books used in other churches in the Anglican Communion. It went through several revisions during the 16th and 17th centuries but has remained largely unchanged since 1662. It contains the order to be followed in church services. ...more on Wikipedia about "Book of Common Prayer"
The Book of Concord or Concordia is a compilation of the major theological documents of early Lutheranism. The book was first published on June 25, 1580, fifty years after the presentation of the Augsburg Confession to Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg. The Book of Concord compiles the important Lutheran confessional documents, that is, documents that summarize and interpret the teachings of the Bible. It was intended to be a definitive Body of Doctrine (Corpus Doctrinae) for all Lutherans. Its editors, Jakob Andreä and Martin Chemnitz, avoided that term in order to distance the Concordia from earlier territorial Corpora Doctrinae. ...more on Wikipedia about "Book of Concord"
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