On the Apostolic Tradition #22

Publication Data: Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2001
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 222
Dimensions (l × w × h): 18.4 cm × 12.7 cm × 1.5 cm
ISBN: 0‒88141‒233‒3
ISBN: 978‒0‒88141‒233‒8

   
Hippolytus
an English Version with Introduction and Commentary by Alistair Stewart-Sykes

Number 22 of Popular Patristics Series

“Apostolic Tradition is an example of the genre known as ‘Church-order literature.’ It contains instructions and regulations for the life of the church dealing with ordinations, the offering of the eucharist and other community meals, the catechumenate and baptism, and the offering of prayer and individual study. No church-order deals with precisely the same material, some being more concerned with the conduct of individual Christians as a result of the expansion of catechetical material, but this is the typical ground covered by the genre. Conventionally, Apostolic Tradition has been attributed to a third century figure called Hippolytus of Rome.”
—“Introduction”

CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction
   I Apostolic Tradition
   II The establishment of a monepiscopate at Rome
   III The discovery and identification of Apostolic Tradition
   IV The title of Apostolic Tradition
   V The “authorship” of Apostolic Tradition
   VI The conclusions to Apostolic Tradition
   VII The contents and arrangement of Apostolic Tradition
   VIII The scholastic church of the Hippolytean community and its church order
   IX The text of Apostolic Tradition
   X A summary of conclusions
English version of Apostolic Tradition and commentary
Appendix: The Hippolytean Homily on the Psalms
Notes
Bibliography
Indices
   I Ancient texts
   II Modern authors
   III Subjects