Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity
Kim Bowes
- U.S.A. Cambriged University Press 2008
- 363tr. hardcover, illustrations 26lacm
Kim Bowes had written a highly specialist book examining the relationship between private Christian worship and its conflict with the episcopal church of the bishops from the fourth to the first half of the fifth centuries A.D. She argues that there were an extraordinary range of private rituals undertaken which constituted a major force which nurtured the first Christian communities. She suggests the Christian history of the period is not as monolithic as the Church would contend.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church Worship Church history Middle Ages