An insight into Early Christian Worship

[angellous_evangellous]

I noticed that as soon as I hit reply.

haha I do that all the time -- it irritates the heck out of my prof.

 

[Otherright]

Support for what? I've said a lot.

In the literature I'm seeing a fragmented and conflicting set of worship practices. There's no continuity -- even in Justin. But in the NT, everything is so choppy and loosely connected. And in Corinth, the church was most likely fragmented and worshipping separately in different homes and each stressed a different form of worship - most obviously speaking in tongues and prophesy. So the tongues and prophesy were likely going on in separate worshipping communities.

I can even say that the way Paul regulates worship is divided into rich and poor, and say that the wealthy women prophesied (head-coverings = wealth) and the poor women had to remain silent (poverty = powerlessness). Now not everyone will agree with me on that, but it is possible.

Pin your theory down then, if its the church at Corinth where you suppose this is happening, make sure it is before you approach academia with the concept. What about Rhossus, that's close to Corinth right. Like 20 miles or so (or am I thinking of somewhere else). What do you have on their practices?

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Pin your theory down then, if its the church at Corinth where you suppose this is happening, make sure it is before you approach academia with the concept. What about Rhossus, that's close to Corinth right. Like 20 miles or so (or am I thinking of somewhere else). What do you have on their practices?

Oh yeah, I know that (the Corinth thing).

I don't know anything about the Christian community at Rhossus, or even if there was one.

 

[Otherright]

Oh yeah, I know that (the Corinth thing).

I don't know anything about the Christian community at Rhossus, or even if there was one.

Wasn't Rhossus the place the Gospel of Peter first appeared? Didn't they find it being taught at Rhossus and denounce it?

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Wasn't Rhossus the place the Gospel of Peter first appeared? Didn't they find it being taught at Rhossus and denounce it?

From wiki:

The gospel is widely thought to date from after Peter's death. Scholars generally agree on a date 'in the second half of the 2nd century. This is assuming it is the text condemned by Serapion upon inspection at Rhossos, circa 190. The Rhossos community had already been using it in their liturgy.[4]

Rhossos is in Syria.

 

[Otherright]

From wiki:



Rhossos is in Syria.

That is way off. Where am I thinking of?

 

[angellous_evangellous]

That is way off. Where am I thinking of?

I don't know. I've been trying to figure that out. There's Kencrae, but that's the port of Corinth (very, very close village on the coast).

 

[sojourner]

From everything I've studied about church history and worship, there have always been at least two forms of service: The Service of the Word, and the the Service of the Table. Each is a complete unit, not needing the other. As the Church progressed, it sort of glommed the two together.

One of my profs said that Paul's injunction to women to keep silent was purely one of social decorum. "Don't talk during the readings!"

I have a hunch that A_E is on to something.