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Documenting – and Rethinking – Liturgy in Early Christianity

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The Christian liturgical papyri. An introduction. By Ágnes T.Mihálykó. (Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity, 114.) Pp. xvi + 453 incl. 36 figs. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. €89. 978 3 16 155786 6; 1436 3003

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2020

DAVID FRANKFURTER
DAVID FRANKFURTER*
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Much current work on early Christianity depends, implicitly or explicitly, on the assumption that lay people actually attended church services (and, hence, listened to and considered sermons by major Church Fathers) more than a few times a year. Whether they attended as ‘Christians’, or simply to engage in various types of material devotion, or out of interest in the religious content to be found in a church, the assumption is that they came.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 72 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 122 - 129
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