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The Social Structure of the Early Christian Communities keyword-postcolonialism Nairn argues that the chaosThe Social Structure of the Early Christian Communities deals with a small number of topics which, in one way or another, have long attracted the attention of students of early Christianity. Above all, it is an attempt to investigate the social origins and the social positions of the early Christians. Recent studies are arriving at the conclusion, contrary to long held views, that the primitive Christian communities, those which emerge after the first