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Roman household hierarchy in which the father rules a household that functions like a small empire.
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pater familias
Roman household hierarchy in which the father rules a household that functions like a small empire.
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The church scaled because it mirrored Roman household hierarchy and patron-client relations, letting bishops control dogma and aristocrats convert networks.
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"...right so the Roman Empire the social structure is called the pater familias and this is basically the idea of patriarchy there's one man..."
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"also have the freed man okay so these are slaves who are freed to work in household and then you have the slaves okay..."
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"is important because the problem with most early Christians is they were egalitarian, which meant that you could have your own interpretation of Jesus...."
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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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