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1997
‘The faith of our fathers’: the making of the early Christian past
Rachel Moriarty
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A hundred years ago, in 1895, London theatre audiences were treated to an interesting exchange on what we would now call the reception of early Church history. The play was Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, and in it the Reverend Dr Chasuble and Miss Prism are discussing marriage, not entirely hypothetically. Dr Chasuble ‘(with a scholar’s shudder)’ observes, ‘The precept as well as the practice of the Primitive Church was distinctly against matrimony’, and Miss Prism replies ‘(sententiously), That is obviously the reason why the Primitive Church has not lasted up to the present day’.
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Rachel Moriarty
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- Tahun Terbit
- 1997
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- 10.1017/s0424208400013152
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