Tag: Emergence of Clergy
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The Other Six Days: C2 – Emergence of the Clergy
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 2 – Reinventing Laity and Clergy Emergence of Clergy Stevens identifies three influences that led to the emergence of clergy in the Church: Imitation of the secular structures of the Greek-Roman world, not unlike the professional-lay distinctions in the modern world.…