Whither the Studies of Family in Early Christianity?:

In the early Gospel literature, family refers to those related by blood, adoption, or marriage and also to those related to one another within the Christian community. There exists tension, however, between the two configurations. In Hellenistic Jewish and Greco-Roman society, one’s home served as a center for education and piety. As distinct from it, however, the Christian movement shifted its loyalty from ‘hearth’ to ‘extra-familial’ relationships.

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