Social Aspects of Early Christianity

by Abraham J. Malherbe

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Noah_Schumacher 18 reviews

A scholarly look at the sociological structure of early Christianity. It is extremely dense with many other's (scholars) view points and fails to offer anything fairly original. Good read if you want a general lay of the landscape revolving socio-criticism.

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