the Lucan community.35 Meeks36 and Rensberger37 engage in sectarian analysis of the Johannine community. Meeks,38 Watson39 and MacDonald bring the typology to bear on the Pauline social movement. MacDonald’s is the most thoroughgoing application of church-sect typology to Pauline Christianity. She charts the development of the Pauline communities through a three-stage process of “cumulative institutionalization”,40 in which a sect-type movement is transformed into a church-type one. The genuine
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