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Patronage in Early Christianity

Patronage in Early Christianity PDF Author: Alan B. Wheatley
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597525871
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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How did the community we glimpse in the New Testament become an institution quite willing to have the emperor Constantine as a primary public partner? By tracing the use of resources, titles, and functions of leaders and patterns of honor giving, Wheatley traces from a wide variety of sources both acceptance and revision of Roman patronage in this countercultural community. Along the way, it is possible to see dissident groups like the Montanists and Marcionites more clearly and sympathetically, and to ask ourselves some pertinent questions about how a Christian community might function in the twenty-first century.