Ancient history: to c 500 CE

The First Evangelization in Earliest Christianity

New Revised and Expanded Edition

by Santiago Guijarro

Description

When during the spring of 50 AD Paul arrived at Corinth in the company of Silvanus and Timothy, he met Prisca and Aquila, expelled from Rome on account of their faith. Since that moment, the Roman couple joined Paul’s group and supported him on his mission.

The letters written by the apostle and his collaborators, as well as the book of the Acts of the Apostles, offer much information regarding this missionary group, yet very scarce data about other groups, giving us the impression they were the leading and almost exclusive actors of the first evangelization.

We know, nonetheless, there were other groups as well as a series of anonymous individual witnesses who carried out an intense missionary activity during the apostolic era. That first and diverse mission was a singular historical event, part of the collective memory on what Christian churches founded and keep founding their identity and their evangelizing task throughout the ages.

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Author Biography

Santiago Guijarro Oporto is Professor of New Testament in the School of Theology at the Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain). 


His books include Fidelidades en conflicto. La ruptura con la familia por causa del discipulado, 1998; Servidores de Dios y esclavos vuestros, 2011; Los dichos de Jesús. Introducción al Documento Q, 2014; El camino del discípulo, 2015; Los cuatro evangelios, 32016.

Ediciones Sígueme

Ediciones Sígueme

Ediciones Sígueme, Spain’s Nacional Award for Best Publishing House in 2005, is a publishing house of Christian inspiration whose goal is the creation of a more fully human, brotherly, and universal culture, open to transcendent values.     1948 can be considered as the official founding date of the publishing house, when it was inscribed under the trademark «Sígueme».     It was at the end of the sixties when the present project of the publishing house began its true development. The defining event in this process was the Second Vatican Council. The renewal espoused by the Council led to the creation of different series (Library of Biblical Studies, Truth and Image, Hermeneia…) which are still published nowadays. It also gave origin to the spirit of openness and plurality in the study of the religious phenomenon, one of the characteristic features of the publishing house.    From its inception to the present year Ediciones Sígueme has published more than 2000 titles. They are a valuable service to the Church, our society and the Spanish culture.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Ediciones Sígueme
  • Orginal LanguageSpanish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9788430119400
  • Publication Country or regionSpain
  • FormatPaperback
  • Pages272
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleLa primera evangelización en los orígenes del cristianismo
  • Edition2
  • Copyright Year2016
  • Page size13,5 x 21

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