TY - BOOK AU - Theissen,Gerd TI - The religion of the earliest churches: creating symbolic world SN - 080063179X AV - BT 60 T314 1999 PY - 1999/// CY - Minneapolis, MN PB - Fortress Press KW - CHRISTIANITY KW - ORIGEN KW - CHURCH HISTORY KW - PRIMITIVE AND EARLY CHURCH, ca. 30-600 N1 - Part One: myth and history in primitive Christianity -- Part Two: the ethics of primitive Christianity -- Part three: the ritual sign language of primitive Christianity -- Part four: primitive Christian religion as an autonomous sign world -- Part five: the crises and consolidation of primitive Christianity ER -