S5: Unexpected Martrys (Cultural Christians in the Early Church)
Cultural Christians in the Early Church (Nadya Williams)
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Many of the challenges that women in the church had to confront in the third century CE have proven surprisingly persistent and attest to the challenge
of resisting the gendered aspect of cultural Christianity.
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