The Disarray in Didache Research – Quest for a Viable Future

The author demonstrates that the voice of the Didache was muted by the supposition that it was spliced together like a church order. He, however, argues that it exhibits a finely tuned oral integrity from beginning to end,but itwas distorted because it was interpreted in the shadow cast by the Gospel of Matthew. Freed of the Christology and ecclesiology of Matthew, the Didache demonstrates a highly sophisticated community of householders bound to the Way of Life in anticipationforthe final ingathering inthe kingdom of God. Finally, the author tries to free the Didache from the high Christology that some scholars have mistakenly tried to overlay with the document.