Questions tagged [didache]
A first-century Christian treatise, dealing with ethics, sacraments, and ecclesiology
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What explanations have scholars proposed for the rejection of the Didache from the Canon?
The Didache (full text) is an early Christian document giving advice on various "practical matters" such as how to baptize, when to fast, how to celebrate the Lord's Supper, etc. It's hard to date, ...
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Who are the hypocrites associated with fasting in the Didache?
The early Christian teaching Didache states that Christians should not fast like the hypocrites:
Your fasts must not be identical with those of the hypocrites. They fast on Mondays and Thursdays; ...
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Why would cold running water be preferred for baptism?
The Didache, or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (an early Christian text not part of the New Testament) says of baptism (chapter 7):
On the subject of baptism, baptise thus: after having taught all ...
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How to reconcile the Didache's instruction with Apostolic succession?
As it pertains primarily to Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and other large denominations that not only lay claim to an unbroken successive line, but who also put significant emphasis on it:
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Which type of Baptism is preferred in today Catholic Parishes?
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Concerning baptism, you should baptize this way: After first
explaining all things, baptize in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in flowing water. But ...
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What did the early Christian twice weekly fasts consist of?
Other than what is mentioned in the Didache regarding the days for fasting, what did early Christian "twice weekly fasts" consist of? What I'd like to know more about is what they fasted from. For ...
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What arguments support an early date for the Didache?
I've encountered a number of dates proposed for the Didache, ranging from some time in the first century, even before some of the documents found in the NT, to late in the second century.
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Did Protestants get "Thine is the Kingdom etc..." from the Didache?
So, I was writing an answer to a question a few minutes ago, and I was going to smugly tell all you Protestants that your "thine is the Kingdom" doxology is so non-Biblical, it's apocryphal.
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How do believers in Jesus' deity explain that Jesus is never claimed to be God/divine in the Old Roman Creed and the Didache?
In an answer to a previous question of mine, a user argued against the historicity of the belief in the divinity of Jesus in the early stages of Christianity, by pointing out the fact that Jesus is ...
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To what name does Didache X refer?
One of the most famous passages of the Didache is its reference to the Matthean baptismal formula:
Didache VII
Concerning baptism, baptise thus: Having first rehearsed all these things, "...
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When did the Early Church begin and end their twice weekly fasts?
In the Didache, it tells us
"8:2 but keep your fast on the fourth and on the preparation day (Friday)."
Obviously some actually did keep these weekly fasts, when exactly did they begin and end?
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In Didache 16, is the author teaching a perfectionism at odds with Catholicism and Protestantism?
...Chapter 16. Watchfulness; the Coming of the Lord. Watch for your life's sake. Let not your lamps be quenched, nor your loins unloosed; but be ready, for you know not the hour in which our Lord will ...
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