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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (24739)8/30/1998 11:08:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Out of curiosity:

What was the geographic spread of Christianity during the pre-Nicean period? How many Christian groups were involved? How many are represented in the letters?

I assume that the religion was spread by disciples travelling to other regions, making converts and passing the word. Knowing how quickly even a simple statement can be distorted when passed around a room, it is hard to believe that doctrinal conformity existed during this period. Many groups surely communicated, but I am sure that this communication was sporadic and often interrupted, given the rather chaotic conditions of far-flung regions of the empire. I am sure that there were also groups outside the communication net. A man hears the tale from a wandering preacher, goes home and starts a cell from what he remembers. It must have happened hundreds, if not thousands, of times. How could it be otherwise?

While I'm not familiar with this period, I am pretty well read from the early medieval period on forward. In this time there is not a single 400 year period in church history that has not been marked by schisms, divergences, and sub-movements, many of which involved bloody conflicts. Why would the first 400 years be any different?

Who was doing the corresponding? How many Christian cells involved literate members?

Steve
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