Early Christian

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  • DidacheAmong the oldest Christian documents outside the New Testament — moral catechism, church manual, and the earliest surviving eucharistic prayers.
  • MarcionFragments and reconstructions from Marcion of Sinope, whose radical theology forced the proto-orthodox Church to define its own scriptural canon.
  • The Shepherd of HermasOne of the most popular texts of early Christianity, read as scripture by Irenaeus and Origen, presenting visions, commandments, and parables of a freed slave guided by an angel in the guise of a shepherd.