Notes

  1. . John Gager, Kingdom and Community: The Social World of Early Christianity (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1975), p. 2.
  2. . Peter Worsley, The Trumpet Shall Sound (New York: Schocken Books, 1968); Kenelm Burridge, New Heaven, New Earth (New York: Schocken Books, 1969); cited by Gager, p. 20 and passim in this chapter.
  3. . Gager, p. 21. I. C. Jarvie, The Revolution in Anthropology (Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1967), p. 51.
  4. . Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schacter, When Prophecy Fails (New York: Harper & Row, 1964). Gager, p. 39.
  5. . Gager, p. 80. Lewis Coser, The Functions of Social Conflict (Glencoe, III.: Free Press, 1956).
  6. . Cf. Gager, p. 85. However, he almost certainly is mistaken in thinking that the Pastoral Epistles, which presuppose increasing structure within the churches they address, were written late enough to be a response to Marcion.
  7. . Cf. Gager, pp. 29–30, 70–72, on charisma. The other items are borrowed from Peter L. Berger; cf. Gager, p. 9 and passim. Cf. my attempt at understanding above.
  8. . Cf. esp. the Epistle to the Galatians.
  9. . Gager does take note of this kind of Christianity on p. 69.
  10. . I am indebted to Lewis Donelson for reminding me of the potentials of this approach.