Early Christian Martyrdom
In Our Time: Religion
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I'm Ae Beginning to See Martyrdoms From the Christian Perspective
Melvourn yere, we'd be better speaking of early christianities than early christianity. In fact, we just have lots of scattered, small communities all across the empire that meet with very different circumstances depending on where they're living. So yes, we do have martyrdoms from the christian perspective, and we certainly have them by this period, the sparking of martyrdom literature. The kind of the famous stories of mar dom comes a little bit later. Some would say later in the second century; some would say third century.
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