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Who Are the People of God? Early Christian Models of Community
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Who Are the People of God? Early Christian Models of Community, by Howard Clark Kee. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1995. 280 pp. $16.00 (paper). ISBN 0-300-07063-2.
KEE IDENTIFIES FIVE MODELS that played an especially important role in shaping the earliest Christian communities: the community of the wise (grounded in various wisdom traditions), the law-abiding community (grounded in the Torah), the community of the temple or city of God, the mystic community, and the inclusive com...
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