Social Setting of Ministry as Reflected in Writings of Hermas Clement &

Focussing on three first- and early-second-century documents (the
Shepherd of Hermas, 1 Clement and the Ignatian epistles), this
work contributes to a growing body of literature concerned with
the social setting of early Christianity. Maier argues that the
development of structures of leadership in the early Christian
church is best accounted ......