Church system in the first centuries of Christianity. 2nd edition. Zom R., Professor

The book of Rudolph Zoma (1841-1917), a prominent German church historian, whose concept in general terms prevails in modern Protestant science, is devoted, according to the author, an attempt to “understand the closed connection of the development of church structure from primary Christianity to the present day, and in The same time is the attitude of the church legal system to the spiritual essence of the Church, to those vital forces that, from the days of the apostles to modernity, without dying, carry and form the being of the church. ” In the application, the book is placed in a detailed article by the Doctor of Canon Law, professor of the Moscow Theological Academy of N. A. Zaozersky "On the essence of church law (against the views of Prof. Rudolph Zoma)." For all those interested in the history of the ancient Church.