In this unique work, Paul Hanson traces the concept of "community" from its early biblical origins through the end of the apostolic age. This edition includes a chapter devoted to the contemporary implications of this concept and in his new introduction, the author further explores the importance of this theme.
Paul D. Hanson is
Florence Corliss Lamont Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught since 1971.