Sociology Of Early Palestinian Christianity by Gerd Theißen
A sociological reconstruction of the earliest Jesus movement in Palestine, this study portrays its origins in a network of itinerant charismatics who renounced family ties and property and were sustained by local householders, generating tensions with village kinship structures and authorities. Drawing on gospel traditions and social-scientific models, it examines how economic marginality, healing and exorcism, and an ethic of nonretaliation functioned within the movement, and traces the shift from radical, apocalyptic itinerancy to the routinization of charisma as communities stabilized and institutionalized their practices.
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- 1978
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- German
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- German
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