In the early years of the first millennium, as Judaism and Christianity each emerged, their adherents saw that life presents us with a choice of following one of two ways, either of goodness or of evi
A specialist in the Apostolic church of early Christianity, Steward-Sykes presents a thoroughly annotated English translation of Arthur Voobus' 1979 edition of a Syriac document that sets out various
Dubbing his work "a prehistory, rather than a history, of preaching," Stewart-Sykes (Vicar of Sturminster Marshall, Kingston Lacy, and Shapwick; Church of England) looks at the homily as the origin of
These are the only three existing ante-Nicene treatises on the Lord's Prayer, and they became the starting point for many other commentaries. Of the three, however, only the discourse of Cyprian is an
