How was Christianity practiced when it was just getting started?

>>3336187
Just like Judaism but more liberal.

Things kinds changed after Paul and Christianity became more global. Not gentiles could believe Christianity.

t. non-expert

>>3336226
Any information helps. I'm just tying to learn how it was practiced before the Church became a political force because it obviously became gradually more corrupted through time when it did.

We know very little about the first century.
Around 150 AD the first Divine Liturgy (or Mass if you will) was codified by Justin the Martyr.

From this liturgy later both Eastern en Western liturgies were developed.
By that I mean the Mass in the West, and Divine Liturgy in the East.

>>3336483
Oh right I forgot something.

Protestants will often mention that early Christians woshipped at home.
While this is true it wasn't like they sat around a table with cakes and coffee.
There was a division between the nave and the sanctuary and relics of martyrs were present.

>>3336187
The earliest accounts of Christian worship (beside laconic descriptions of "participation in one bread and one altar/table" in Pauline epistles) are Didache and The Apology of Justin Martyr. Read them.
How it looked? Imagine Kakure Kirishitans masses but everyone speaks greek and liturgy is a bit shorter.

>>3336187
>Christianity practiced
by living well

The cross took a while to become a symbol, right?

lots of buttsecs

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>>3336187
>How was Christianity practiced when it was just getting started?

Run like hell awaits murderers after they die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLCTzLzf6to

>>3336187
Fits and starts, and generally very clumsily. People would meet in secret, in each other's houses, and keep an eye out for both Jews and Romans.

That fish?

One man with the side of his foot would casually make an arc in the sand. If the man he was talking to was a Christian, that man would make the other arc, forming the fish. Then the fish would be erased, and both men would know they were both Christians, and neither one a spy.

>>3336511
You forgot a lot of things, including that your Roman Catholicism was not Christian, never was Christian, and never will be Christian.

>>3337097
>The language used in the inscriptions are Pahlavi and Syriac script. The inscription in the cross found at St. Thomas Mount is divided in to two unequal parts by a mark like “plus” sign or simple cross. The language used in the inscription is Pahlavi. The style of the letters are of thats used in the Persian empire during Sassanian dynasty.This same inscription is found at another cross found in Kottayam. In Kottayam there are two crosses. The other smaller cross in Kottayam has a part of the same inscription. The other part of the small cross in Kottayam has a quotation from Galatians. This quotation is written in Estrangelo Syriac and this second cross is attributed to tenth century.

>The essential characteristics of Pahlavi are the use of an Aramaic-derived script and the high incidence of Aramaic words which are used as logograms or ideograms. This middle Iranian language or admixture was in use as early as from 300 BC to the fall of the Sassanid empire and (with exceptions) extending to about 900 CE. The Sassanian dynasty ruled over 226- 650 AD.

>Because of the convergence in form of many of the characters, there is a high degree of ambiguity in Pahlavi writing. Many common words were replaced by their Aramaic equivalents, which were used as ideograms. Important religious texts were sometimes transcribed into the Avestan alphabet, which was phonetically ambiguous. That causes problems in reading and transliteration and was the hindrance for the scholars in arriving on a consensus on the interpretations.

>Paleographers are in agreement that the style used in lettering in the crosses found in St. Thomas Mount are of 6th century. Carbon dating also proves that the oldest of these crosses in India, ie The Saint Thomas Cross at Mylapore is from a period of 6th or 7th century. The Cross at St. Thomas church at Mylapore seems to be the oldest, which is traced back to 650 AD by C14 dating test and may be this is as old as Anirudhapuram cross.

>>3336187
Jason Beduhn believes that some of the popular liturgical customs may have been adapted from Manichaeism in competition with it.
https://youtu.be/4OP4F5aPn-g

>>3336187
I guess the oldest liturgy is the Liturgy of St. James which is used regularly in Syriac Orthodox churches and the Greeks preserve the oldest form of it. There are also other earlier possible anaphoras.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphora_(liturgy)#Surviving_examples
https://youtu.be/FnXcKYNOsAw