Early Days of Christianity by Frederic W. Farrar Antiquarian Leather Bound with Marbled Endpapers Circa 1890 New Testament Interpretation

Early Days of Christianity by Frederic W. Farrar Antiquarian Leather Bound with Marbled Endpapers Circa 1890 New Testament Interpretation

<Condition is Good as Pictured> (normal wear with markings, bumped/rubbed corners, heavy edge-wear, toning/foxing throughout, front hinge is cracked with pages loosening, some folded page corners, some damp stains, previous owners bookplate is affixed inside front cover) size is approximately 8”x5.50” with 754 numbered pages

—The Early Days of Christianity is a historical account written by Frederic W. Farrar in 1883. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the early Christian Church, beginning with the life of Jesus Christ and the events leading up to his crucifixion.

From the Preface— I complete in this volume the work which has absorbed such leisure as could be spared from many and onerous duties during the last twelve years. My object has been to furnish English readers with a companion, partly historic and partly expository, to the whole of the New Testament. By attention to the minutest details of the original, by availing myself to the best of my power of the results of modern criticism, by trying to concentrate upon the writings of the Apostles and Evangelists such light as may be derived from Jewish, Pagan, or Christian sources, I have endeavoured to fulfil my ordination vow and to show diligence in such studies as help to the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. The " Life of Christ" was intended mainly as a commentary upon the Gospels.

It was written in such a form as should reproduce whatever I had been able to learn from the close examination of every word which they contain, and should at the same time set forth the living reality of the scenes recorded. In the " Life of St. Paul" I wished to incorporate the details of the Acts of the Apostles with such biographical incidents as can be derived from the Epistles of St. Paul, and to take the reader through the Epistles themselves in a way which might enable him, with keener interest, to judge of their separate purpose and peculiarities; by grasping the circumstances under which each of them was written. The present volume is an attempt to set forth, in their distinctive characteristics, the work and the writings of St. Peter, St. James, St. Jude, St. John, and the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews. If my effort has been in any degree successful, the reader should carry away from these pages some conception of the varieties of religious thought which prevailed in the schools of Jerusalem and of Alexandria, and also of those phases of theology which are represented by the writings of the two
greatest of the twelve Apostles.

-Dean Frederic William Farrar was a senior-ranking cleric of the Church of England (Anglican), schoolteacher and author. He was a pallbearer at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles secret society. He was the Archdeacon of Westminster from 1883 to 1894, and Dean of Canterbury from 1895 until his death in 1903.

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