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I. 1st to 19th Century – II. 20th and 21st Centuries
I. 1st to 19th Century
1. Early Church
The concerns of the first centuries of the church were less with the establishing of fellowship than with its preservation – focused in the fellowship of the Lord's Supper – among Christians and congregations (Paul, Saint, Apostolic Council, Clement I (Romanus), Ignatius [Ignatian Epistles], Irenaeus of Lyon, Cyprian of Carthage, etc.) and with the exclusion of theologians and groups propounding fals…