Christianity: a success story from the start?
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Christianity and the Authority Structures
The pre-Constantinian Christianity is a series of autonomous, self-running communities in various towns around the Mediterranean that are in periodic contact with one another. There is no authority structure, no one's in charge of Christianity. When you look at what happens in the late Roman period, you get a centralized authority structure for the first time within the Christian religion. So emperors are firmly in charge and quarrels are fought out at the imperial court.
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