Class distinction as a way of doing church: the early Fathers and the Christian "plebs"

Roman notions of social and legal distinction helped to shape the approach of certain pre-Nicene Fathers to the ordering of the church. The social distinction between ordo and plebs and the legal one between honestior and humilior helped these Fathers to differentiate the particular rights and respo...

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Main Author: Rankin, David 1952- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2004
In: Vigiliae christianae
Year: 2004, Volume: 58, Issue: 3, Pages: 298-315
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Social stratification / Church / Church fathers / History 90-200
RelBib Classification:KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
ZB Sociology