I am interested in house churching and have read several reports online which indicate that Constantine, though he issued the edict of toleration forbidding persecution of Christianity, also ordered that Christians assemble in the basilicas which he financed from his own pocket.
I have found plenty of evidence that he in fact financed the building of basilicas and other religious facilities and interfered with the church in many other ways, but I have not been able to find documentation one way or the other about house churching vs. public worship.
Does anyone know of a credible resource, online or otherwise, which will help me resolve this? I simply want to know the truth, whatever that is.
Incidentally, this should be a scholarly, respected work, so though I expect the rantings of anti-religious types, I 'm not really after anything religious - this is a history question, so humor me please and don't subject me to a bunch of blithering.
2007-03-29
14:47:56
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