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A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To overlook the extent of private initiative would be to ignore a major impulse to early Christian expansion. In homes, whole families adopted a style of life modelled on the Apostles...

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The central dynamism of Christianity, which rests precisely on a unity through variety.

Judith Herrin

The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It became more like an additional arm of secular administration.

Judith Herrin

Judith Herrin

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Born: 1942 (age 79)

Bio: Judith Herrin is a British archaeologist and academic of Late Antiquity. She was Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and Constantine Leventis Senior Research Fellow at King's College London.

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The formation of Christendom (1987)
Women in Purple (2001)

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