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Daily Life in the Early Church - Studies in the Church Social History of the First Five Centuries (Hardcover, Revised ed.)
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Daily Life in the Early Church - Studies in the Church Social History of the First Five Centuries (Hardcover, Revised ed.)
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What did the early Christians wear' What did they eat' What did
they talk about over the dinner table' What recreations did they
enjoy' These are among the questions answered in this study, which
reveals the social background to the first five hundred years of
the Church's development, through six vividly recounted,
biographical portraits. Applying the methods of the social
historian to the early Church, the author describes the daily life
of the first believers, personifying the general facts and
depicting them in these composite portraits of specific
individuals, who are taken as representatives of different strands
of early Christian life: Clement, a philosopher and teacher in
Alexandria at the end of the 2nd century Paul of Samosata, A.D.
268, who taught heretically in Antioch Virginia, A.D. 304, whose
last day on earth is set against the background of Diocletian's
persecutions Diogenes, a sexton of Rome John Chrysotom, A.D. 400, a
great Bishop of the Church John Cassian, a friend of Chrysotom and
resident of Marseilles. The author uses contemporary documents and
authorities to construct the biographies, which animate and
illuminate the early development of the Church. By conducting the
reader through the daily routines of these individuals, the past is
recreated as a living reality. "A little rest is now obviously
called for, and Paul goes up to the roof where a couch is placed
beneath an awning. The air is pleasantly warm and filled with the
mingled scent of lilies, jacinths and pinks which rises from the
many gardens of Antioch." Extract from Paul
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