Abstract
The present study considers the experience of the new Christian religion in the context of the Roman Empire of the first century, seeking to highlight several aspects of its earliest institutionalization. Primitive Christianity was not a singular movement but was instead reflected in the existence of many small domestic communities without an orthodoxy standardized in faith, an ecclesiastical hierarchy, or centralized institutions. The study will reveal the ways in which Christianity spread through the imperial and synagogal infrastructures, as well as through the use of Greek cultural references. It will also discuss the dominant types of Christian organization, which would benefit from the socially entrenched arrangement of the old patriarchal house as a framework for the centralized and hierarchized institutional development to take root in Christianity, in a manner analogous to imperial bureaucratic architecture.
Highlights
Résumé La présente étude s’intéresse à la vie de la nouvelle religion chrétienne dans le contexte impérial romain du premier siècle et cherche à mettre en lumière certains aspects de son institutionnalisation première
The present study considers the experience of the new Christian religion in the context of the Roman Empire of the first century, seeking to highlight several aspects of its earliest institutionalization
In: BERARDINO, Angelo di; FEDALTO, Giorgio; SIMONETTI, Manlio (Org.)
Summary
Resumo O presente estudo versa sobre a vivência da nova religião cristã no contexto imperial romano do primeiro século, buscando ressaltar alguns aspectos da sua primeira institucionalização. Tratará dos tipos dominantes de organização cristã, que se aproveitarão do arranjo socialmente arraigado da casa antiga patriarcal como arcabouço para o desenvolvimento institucional centralizado e hierarquizado que se firmará na cristandade, de forma análoga à arquitetura burocrática imperial. Cristianismo primitivo rumbo a la institucionalización: contexto imperial romano (siglo I). Resumen El presente estudio versa sobre la experiencia de la nueva religión cristiana en el contexto imperial romano del siglo I y busca resaltar algunos aspectos de su primera institucionalización. Se tratarán los tipos dominantes de organización cristiana, que aprovecharán la disposición socialmente arraigada de la antigua casa patriarcal como marco para el desarrollo institucional centralizado y jerárquico que se asentará en la cristiandad, de manera análoga a la arquitectura burocrática imperial. Primitive Christianity to institutionalization: Context of the Roman Empire (first century)
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