Church and Community Conflicts

If early Christians were branded deviants because they refused to worship traditional gods and this was seen as a threat to the community asks De Vos then why were actions against them only sporadic and limited? More specifically he applies a social science methodology to explain why some of Paul''s churches experienced conflict with their wider civic communities but others did not. The study is slightly revised from a 1997 PhD dissertation for Flinders University of South Australia but not enough to include an index. Annotation c. Book News Inc. Portland OR (booknews)