"A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To overlook the extent of private initiative would be to ignore a major impulse to early Christian expansion. In homes, whole families adopted a style of life modelled on the Apostles."

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Source : Judith Herrin (1989). “The Formation of Christendom”, p.57, Princeton University Press

Judith Herrin

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