I. Thematic Overview of Guy & Chadwick: Routinization of communitas or natural development? CH-625-Early Church (TSM) Lesson-01 2

3 The early church began as an “evangelistic movement, with ministry defined by function” (Guy), with a “missionary beginning” marked by a “hierarchy of gifts” (Chadwick)

CH-625-Early Church (TSM) Lesson-01 4 Spirit-filled individuals like Montanus ran into conflict with the “mainstream church” (Guy)—a “church constituted by bishops rather than spiritual men”? (Tertullian, quoted by Chadwick, p. 53)

CH-625-Early Church (TSM) Lesson-01 5 A necessary “foci of unity” versus charismatic “anarchy” (Guy) as local two-tiered ministry became a more universal three-tiered hierarchy (Chadwick). Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, d. c. 200

CH-625-Early Church (TSM) Lesson-01 6 “All roads led to Rome” (Guy), especially as Rome became “the West’s only apostolic ‘foundation’” (Chadwick).