The Social World of Early Christianity
FAIN: FS-10489-76
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)
Wayne Meeks (Project Director: January 1977 to present)
To explore the social world of early Christian groups: aspects of their internal structure their interaction with the larger society, and the "plausibility structures" or “symbolic universe" which was formed by their beliefs, rituals, and special language.