The Ancient Church as Family David Baskerville Democratic Dissent and the Cultural

Democratic Dissent and the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum Americabrilliantly unravels the paradoxes of democracy while reminding us that the most powerful political arguments are often those situated furthest from the political issue at hand

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The Ancient Church as Family David Baskerville Democratic Dissent and the CulturalThe author explores the literature of the first three centuries of the church in terms of group identity and formation as surrogate kinship. Why did this become the organizing model in the earliest churches? How did historical developments intervene to shift the paradigm? How do ancient Mediterranean kinship structures correlate with church formation? Hellerman traces the fascinating story of these developments over three centuries and what brought