Church and Community Conflicts

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If early Christians were branded deviants because they refused to worship traditional gods, and this was seen as a threat to the community, asks De Vos, then why were actions against them only sporadic and limited? More specifically, he applies a social science methodology to explain why some of Paul's churches experienced conflict with their wider civic communities but others did not. The study is slightly revised from a 1997 PhD dissertation for Flinders University of South Australia, but not enough to include an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)