Abstract

In Greco-Roman antiquity, the family or the household (domus) represented an important religious factor with which early Christians had to deal everyday. This paper seeks to address this often ignored dimension of Christianity, by concentrating on the transformation of the religious meaning of the household, rather than by discussing how Christians changed the social or societal function of the family or household. This should bring into clearer focus the fact that ancient Christianity had civic, ecclesiastical, and domestic structures.

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