Kim Bowes: evaluation

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…For the Christians, do they have altars in their homes? Do they have altars in their homes? A vexed and interesting question. In the beginning, I suspect not, but because they live in a world in which all religion, if it’s practiced correctly, has some sort of material form. You don’t just sit and do religion in your head in the Greco-Roman world because the Greco-Roman world, as we were just talking about a minute ago, is full of stuff. The second that there start to be enough Christians and they are really integrated into their communities, because they are, they start to have a material piece of their religion. They might not have an altar, but they might have a lamp that has a Christian symbol on it. They have something that is a direction of their worship, and that is a thing that expresses their religious identity, and they start to have them pretty early, as far as we can tell. They don’t wear crosses around their necks or in any other way?…

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