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Daily Life in the Early Church: Studies in the Church Social History of the First Five Centuries - Couverture rigide

Davies, John Gordon

 
9780718890209: Daily Life in the Early Church: Studies in the Church Social History of the First Five Centuries
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0718890205 ISBN 13 : 9780718890209
Editeur : Lutterworth Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Reverend John Gordon Davies was educated at King's School (Chester), Christ Church (Oxford) and Westcott House (Cambridge). He worked in the dockland parish of Rotherhithe and as Professor in Theology at the University of Birmingham. He was also Director of the University's Institute for the Study of Worship and Religious Architecture.

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Éditeur
Lutterworth Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0718890205
ISBN 13 
9780718890209
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
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