The Earliest History of the Christian Gathering. Origin, Development and Content of the Christian Gathering in the First to Third Centuries

✍ Scribed by Valeriy A. Alikin

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 361
Series: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 102
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Using recent insights into the nature of early Christian communities as religious associations, this book offers a new reconstruction of the origins and development of the weekly Christian gathering and its constitutive elements; based on an analysis of a

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