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The Church in the Roman Empire
Before A.D. 170. Ninth Edition. With Maps and Illustrations, 8vo, cloth, 125.
" The whole volume is full of freshness and originality. ... I lay down his book with warm and sincere admiration. He has succeeded in investing a number of critical discussions with extra- ordinary vividness and reality. He has done so because he writes always 'with his eye upon the object,' and that an object seen in the light of knowledge which in its own special sphere (the geography of Asia Minor and Roman administration) is unrivalled." — Prof. W. Sanday, in The Expositor.
" The volume is the most important contribution to the study of early Church history which has been published in this country since the great work of Bishop Lightfoot on the Apostolic fathers. It is, too, unless our memory fails us, without a rival in any foreign country. . . . Alike in its methods and conclusions its value is unique. ... In the first portion, Professor Ramsay uses a wealth of topographical and antiquarian knowledge to illustrate the missionary journeyings of St. Paul, and succeeds, we believe, completely in de- monstrating the thoroughly historical character of the account we possess. . . . He has reconstructed the cities and the city life of the past, and with this picture before his eyes he has examined every line and word of the original authorities." — Guardian.
•' This is a book of the very first importance, and is a fine example of the service ancient geography and archaeology can render to sacred history and criticism. Professor Ramsay brings to his work not only enthusiasm, but the trained pen and the first-hand knowledge of the explorer who has done so much towards the discovery of the riches buried in Asia Minor, and also rare independence of judgment, critical sagacity, and sureness of insight. We have read this book with growing admiration and delight, and we have finished it with the feeling that, while he has made all students of the older world his debtors, the heaviest debt is owed by the students of theology and the Church. He has supplied them with new materials, new points of view, and new branches of inquiry." — Speaker.
" Professor W. M. Ramsay is the greatest living authority on the geography of Asia Minor and on the historical and archaeological questions associated with its study. Of these questions none are more important than those connected with the early history of the Christian Church. . . . The first part of the volume, which is added to the lectures as originally delivered, deals with St. Paul in Asia Minor, a subject in the treatment of which Prof. Ramsay is peculiarly at home, and which he treats with singular freshness of erudition. The latter part, covering the period a.d. 64-170, consists of the material originally employed for the lectures delivered at Mansfield College, but now entirely re-cast and considerably enlarged. . . . His results are of profound interest to all students of early ecclesiastical history." — Times.
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