Christian Belief - an Unchanging Essence?

In about the year A.D. III Pliny sent to the emperor Trajan a report about the behaviour of Christians in Bithynia in which he said that they admitted to having meetings before dawn at which it was their practice carmen Christo quasi deo dicere. Would the Christians have thought this account of them...

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Main Author: Ramsey, Michael 1904-1988 (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [1975]
In: Religious studies
Year: 1975, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 193-200
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