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How was Christianity, if it were to achieve transformation of contemporary society, to respond to such an apparently unassailable position How indeed was it to develop both the aim and the strategy for so doing This book answers these questions.

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Ignatius of Antioch (died c 115) is one of the Apostolic Fathers of the Christian Church. This book offers an account of the circumstances and the cultural context in which Ignatius constructed what became the historic church order of Christendom. It presents Ignatius as a controversial figure arising in the context of a church at war with itself.