Title Kingdom and community : the social world of early Christianity / John G. Gager.

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Description	xiii, 158 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Prentice-Hall studies in religion series
	Prentice-Hall studies in religion series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction. Theology and history in the study of early Christianity ; Religion and social world -- The end of time and the rise of community. Earliest Christianity as a millenarian movement ; Christian missions and the theory of cognitive dissonance ; The attainment of millennial bliss through myth : the book of Revelation -- The quest for legitimacy and consolidation. The question of legitimacy ; Orthodoxy and heresy -- Religion and society in the early Roman empire. The Roman social order ; Earliest Christianity and the Roman social order -- The success of Christianity. The problem of perspective ; External factors ; Internal factors ; Christianity and its competitors.
Subject	Christian sociology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
ISBN	0135162114. 0135162033 (paperback)