House Church and Mission: The Importance of Household Structures in Early Christianity. By Roger W. Gehring
It is well known that the first-century Christians met in houses, and generally agreed that in our literature oikos refers not just to the physical structure whose ground plan archaeologists can occasionally uncover but to the extended family that lived in it and formed a small community that was in...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 666-671 |
| Review of: | House Church and Mission (Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson, 2004) (Alastair Campbell, R.)
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| Summary: | It is well known that the first-century Christians met in houses, and generally agreed that in our literature oikos refers not just to the physical structure whose ground plan archaeologists can occasionally uncover but to the extended family that lived in it and formed a small community that was in turn seen as the basic unit of which the city itself was composed. House churches might therefore better be termed ‘household churches’. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm035 |