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Kingdom and Community

The Social World of Early Christianity

by John G. Gager

A pioneering application of social-scientific theory to the New Testament period. Gager uses ideas from the study of millenarian movements and cognitive dissonance to explain how the first Christians responded to the delay of the expected end.

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