Maxwell Institute Podcast #129
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The Household Culture Within Early Christian Communities and Believers
The household and the home specifically, would have been used for all kinds of ordinary, quotidian activities that people would engaged in within the antique world. But one of the things that i really try and focus on is that houses were also spaces used for right and ritual and worship. Houses are not just used for traditional or orthodox worship, but actually, there are a number of scholars who point to the fact that you could find less orthodox right and ritual happenings within earliest christianity. Even private households could become the focus point, or the locus of survival, or initiation, or even recruitment for and conversion for some of these earliest christian communities and believers.
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