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The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.
A Creative Minority
Jon Tyson, Heather Grizzle
For other religious movements of the day, such as Mithraism or the cult of Jupiter Dolichenus, for example, there are the remains of numerous shrines and dedicatory inscriptions but no texts.46 For early Christianity, however, there are no known church structures or inscriptions prior to sometime in the third century AD, but there is this huge catalogue of texts. This is yet another indication that early Christianity was different from at least most other religious groups of the time.
Destroyer of the Gods
Larry W. Hurtado
In fasting, what begins with experiencing the emptiness of our stomach ends in experiencing the emptiness of the world.
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
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