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Christianity: Faith, Scripture and Tradition

The First Urban Christians

The Social World of the Apostle Paul

by Wayne A. Meeks

A pioneering social history of the Pauline churches. Meeks examines the cities, households, social levels and rituals of Paul's communities, showing how sociological methods can illuminate the earliest Christianity.

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