What did the ear­ly church believe about killing? What was its view on abor­tion? How did it approach cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment and war? Not­ed the­olo­gian and best­selling author Ron Sider lets the tes­ti­mo­ny of the ear­ly church speak in the first of a three-vol­ume series on bib­li­cal peacemaking.

This book pro­vides in Eng­lish trans­la­tion all extant data direct­ly rel­e­vant to the wit­ness of the ear­ly church until Con­stan­tine on killing. Pri­mar­i­ly, it draws data from ear­ly church writ­ings, but oth­er evi­dence, such as archae­o­log­i­cal finds and Roman writ­ings, is included.

Sider taps into cur­rent evan­gel­i­cal inter­est in how the ear­ly church informs con­tem­po­rary life while pre­sent­ing a thor­ough, com­pre­hen­sive treat­ment on top­ics of peren­ni­al con­cern. The book includes brief intro­duc­tions to every Chris­t­ian writer cit­ed and explana­to­ry notes on many spe­cif­ic texts.

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