The Didache: Christianity’s First Manual

Join us on the St Shenouda Podcast as we uncover the Didache, an indispensable ancient Christian treatise known fully as "The Lord's Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations". Dating potentially as early as the first century CE, this brief, anonymous text offers a powerful glimpse into the practical life and rituals of the earliest Christian communities. Scholars consider the Didache the foundational example of the genre of Church Orders, functioning as a pastoral manual concerned primarily with orthopraxy—how Christians ought to behave.

This remarkable document, which might predate several New Testament books, is divided into four main sections:

1. The Two Ways: Discover the foundational ethical teaching contrasting the W ...