This volume contains the earliest Christian writings outside for the Bible from the very first and second centuries of the Church.

Containing letters, apologetics, extra-canonical gospel narratives and historical information on early worship, this compilation provides a view of the nature of the Early Church when still in its infancy in Imperial Rome and its struggles both with internal controversies and external persecutions.

This works contains:

• The Didache
• The Epistles of Ignatius of Antioch
• The Epistle of Barnabas
• 1 and 2 Clement
• Polycarp's Epistle to the Philippians
• The Shepherd of Hermas
• The Gospel of James
• Hippolytus's The Apostolic Tradition
• Justin Martyr's First Apology
• The Martyrdom of Polycarp
• The Epistle to Diognetus

305 pages (PB)