TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patzia,Arthur G.
TI  - The emergence of the church: context, growth, leadership & worship 
SN  - 0830826505 (paper : alk. paper)
AV  - BR 165 .P35 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Downers Grove, Ill.
PB  - InterVarsity Press
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Vroege kerk
KW  - gtt
KW  - Ontstaansgeschiedenis
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-260) and indexes; The geographical, religious & cultural background to the early church -- Jesus & the church -- The geographical expansion, numerical growth & diversity of the early church -- The emergence of ministry, leadership & church order in the early church -- Worship in the early church -- Concluding remarks
N2  - "The Emergence of the Church explores the story, weighs the issues and traces the contours of the early church's expansion and growth, life and practices, leadership and worship. Here is a panoramic introduction to the church as it was in the first century and a foundation for considering how it should be in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -