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Christianity in the Roman Empire: Key Figures, Beliefs, and Practices of the Early Church (AD 100–300) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christianity in the Roman Empire is a topical and biographical introduction to Christianity before Constantine. While its focus is the historical development of the proto-orthodox community, Robert Winn aims to bridge the gap between contemporary Christians and those who lived in the Roman Empire. To do this, his chapters discuss particular topics such as prayer, biblical interpretation, worship,...

with an authority structure and moral guidelines, there were also strong disagreements among Christians. One source of this disagreement seems to come from those who wished Christianity to remain strongly connected to ancient Jewish belief and practice. One can see this playing out in Acts 15 and in Paul’s letter to the Galatians. A second source of this disagreement arose from those who came into the church without any background at all in Judaism and who were not interested in following the moral
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