In Community Building in the Shepherd of Hermas, Mark Grundeken investigates key aspects of Christian community life as reflected upon in the early Christian writing the Shepherd of Hermas (2nd century C.E.).

Mark Grundeken, Ph.D. (2013), KU Leuven, is Akademischer Rat at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He has published several articles on early Christianity and edited with Joseph Verheyden the volume Early Christian Communities between Ideal and Reality (Mohr Siebeck, 2015).