Urban Religion, Neighbourhoods and the Early Christian Meeting Places
In a recent study, Edward Adams has attempted to refute the standard view that early Christians met in private houses and argues instead in favour of a number of other possibilities. I show that he misinterprets various key passages, fails to differentiate between the various occasions for early Chr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Religion in the Roman empire
Year: 2020, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 48-74 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Roman Empire
/ Church
/ Neighborhood
/ Meeting
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BE Greco-Roman religions CH Christianity and Society KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
| Further subjects: | B
Early Christians
B Baptism B Urban Religion B Cemeteries B Neighbourhood B voluntary associations B (house) churches B Prayer |
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| Summary: | In a recent study, Edward Adams has attempted to refute the standard view that early Christians met in private houses and argues instead in favour of a number of other possibilities. I show that he misinterprets various key passages, fails to differentiate between the various occasions for early Christian meetings, neglects the chronology of the development of the Christian churches, and has overlooked several important early testimonies. Instead, I stress that the traditional view is basically correct, discuss the various terms used by the early Christians for their churches, note the important role of the more well-to-do in the services, argue that we should be attentive to non-congregational meetings of Christians, and point to the modest place the early Christian meeting places must have occupied in the urban religion of the earlier Roman Empire. |
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| ISSN: | 2199-4471 |
| Reference: | Kritik von "The earliest Christian meeting places (London [u.a.] : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2013)"
Kritik in "La maison comme lieu de réunion des premiers chrétiens (2023)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion in the Roman empire
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/rre-2020-0005 |