An elevated seat 291 was used for reading the Like the choir 290 in the later churches. Suited for worship and for the love-feast was the oblong dining-hall, the triclinium, which was never wanting in aĬonvenient Greek or Roman dwelling, and which often had a semicircular niche, Clement of Alexandria refutes the superstition, that God is not, like the gods of the heathen, inclosed in space, but is invisibly Roman prefect: The Christians assemble wherever it is convenient, because their
Spirit, with which no Jupiter of Phidias can compare. Most beautiful image of God, and true Christians are living statues of the Holy Origen admirably replied: The humanity of Christ is the highest temple and the Heathens, like Celsus, cast this up to them as a reproach but Of these words), and that their worship was spiritual and independent of placeĪnd ritual. The apologists frequentlyĪssert, that their brethren had neither temples nor altars (in the pagan sense Their poverty, their oppressed and outlawed condition, their love of silenceĪnd solitude, and their aversion to all heathen art. The graves of martyrs, and in the crypts of the catacombs. Until about the close of the second century theĬhristians held their worship mostly in private houses, or in desert places, at Mystical character of the eucharistic sacrifice. Organization and doctrine, the gradual and sure approach of the Nicene age,Įspecially in the ritualistic solemnity of the baptismal service, and the Persecution, was very simple, strongly contrasting with the pomp of the GreekĪnd Roman communion yet by no means puritanic. 541 sqq.īe expected from the humble condition of the church in this period of
Schnaase, Lübke, Voillet-le-Duc, De Vogüé etc.) usually begin with theīasilicas of the Constantinian age, which are described in vol. On church architecture (by Fergusson, Brown, Bunsen, Kugler, Kinkel, Kreuser, 455, and the relevant sections in the archaeological works ofĬhristian Church, Lond. 59–61), and the Homily falsely ascribed to him (fully Tertullian, Cyprian, Eusebius, and the so-called Constitutiones
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