Establishing Short-Term Communities in Eucharistic Celebrations of Antiquity
Despite traces of their self-conceptualisation as long-term groups, Christian community meetings established groups with a presumably small and stable long-term core group and with a certainly instable group of other participants. In this respect, Christian groups abided by group-styles of other soc...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Mohr Siebeck
[2017]
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Religion in the Roman empire
Year: 2017, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 66-86 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church
/ Liturgy
/ Lord's supper
/ Group formation
/ History 300-400
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBP Sacramentology; sacraments RC Liturgy TD Late Antiquity |
Further subjects: | B
Mass
B GROUP-STYLE B Liturgy B MORNING SALUTATIO B Christianity B Eucharist B Meals B Didache |
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Summary: | Despite traces of their self-conceptualisation as long-term groups, Christian community meetings established groups with a presumably small and stable long-term core group and with a certainly instable group of other participants. In this respect, Christian groups abided by group-styles of other social bodies in their cities. Gatherings of Christians were as stable and unstable as other fellowships at a banquet or as the group of clients who met a certain patron in a morning salutatio. In the fourth century, the celebration of Eucharists becomes embedded in a performance sui generis, which contemporary preachers cannot explain by analogies to contemporary institutions. They have recourse to far-fetched and highly metaphorical notions in order to describe and legitimise these performances. Current sociological studies about the developments of groups thus provide important analytical categories for the reconstruction of the early history of Christian liturgies. |
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ISSN: | 2199-4471 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion in the Roman empire
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.15496/publikation-90933 DOI: 10.1628/219944617X14860387744267 HDL: 10900/149593 |