The Church in Antioch in the First Century CE: Communion and Conflict

by Michelle Slee

Book Overview

The book explores the problems faced by the church in Antioch in the mid-first century CE once the decision was taken to welcome Gentiles into the church. Slee argues that a particular problem was the celebration of the Eucharist, since some Jewish Christians felt that the table-fellowship this involved inevitably brought the risk of contamination (because of Gentile contact with idolatry). She suggests this was the subject debated at the Jerusalem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567083829
• ISBN13: 9780567083821
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"