Author: W. M. Ramsay

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Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 9781331203742

Excerpt from The Church in the Roman Empire: Before A. D. 170 This work originates from the invitation with which the Council of Mansfield College, Oxford, honoured me in the end of July 1891, to give a course of six lectures there in May-June 1892.The opinion of Dr. Fairbairn, Dr. Sanday, and other friends encouraged me to hope that faults of execution - of which I was and am painfully conscious - did not wholly obscure a good idea in them; and it is at their advice that the present book appears. The lectures are almost entirely rewritten (except Chap. IX.), and are enlarged by the addition of Part I. and in other respects, which need not be specified; but they retain their original character as lectures, intended rather to stimulate interest and research in students than to attain scientific completeness and order of exposition. They exemplify to younger students the method of applying archaeological, topographical, and numismatic evidence to the investigation of early Christian history; and, as I always urge on my pupils, their aim is to suggest to others how to treat the subject better than I can. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.