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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Publié dans:Religion in the Roman empire
Auteur principal: Leonhard, Clemens 1967- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Mohr Siebeck [2017]
Dans: Religion in the Roman empire
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Christianisme primitif / Liturgie / Cène / Formation d’un groupe / Histoire 300-400
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
KAB Christianisme primitif
NBP Sacrements
RC Liturgie
TD Antiquité tardive
Sujets non-standardisés:B Mass
B GROUP-STYLE
B Liturgy
B MORNING SALUTATIO
B Christianity
B Eucharist
B Meals
B Didache
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:2199-4471
Contient:Enthalten in: Religion in the Roman empire
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.15496/publikation-90933
DOI: 10.1628/219944617X14860387744267
HDL: 10900/149593