Over the years, Everett Ferguson has been a distinguished and prolific contributor to the study of early Christianity, and especially its liturgical practices. It is therefore gratifying to see some of his output collected in these two volumes [...] Characteristic of Professor Ferguson's traditional method of scholarship has been to subject the works of individual patristic authors or particular documents to extremely detailed study of wording, and to accompany his arguments with clear quotation of the sources on which they are based, making them easy to follow [...] It will form a useful addition to the bookshelves of anyone interested in serious study of these areas of early Christianity.
— Paul Bradshaw

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

1 Irenaeus' Proof of the Apostolic Preaching and Early Catechetical Instruction
2 Catechesis and Initiation
3 Christian and Jewish Baptism according to the Epistle of Barnabas
4 Baptism according to Origen
5 The Doctrine of Baptism in Gregory of Nyssa's 'Oratio Catechetica'
6 Exhortations to Baptism in the Cappadocians
7 Basil's Protreptic to Baptism
8 Preaching at Epiphany: Gregory of Nyssa and John Chrysostom on Baptism and the Church
9 Spiritual Circumcision in Early Christianity
10 Inscriptions and the Origin of Infant Baptism
11 The Disgrace and the Glory: A Jewish Motif in Early Christianity
12 The Kingdom of God in Early Patristic Literature
13 Was Barnabas a Chiliast? An Example of Hellenistic Number Symbolism in Barnabas and Clement of Alexandria
14 Millennial and Amillennial Expectations in Christian Eschatology: Ancient and Medieval Views
15 Number Symbolism in the Ancient World
16 Divine Pedagogy: Origen's Use of the Imagery of Education
17 Early Christian Martyrdom and Civil Disobedience

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