The body as a sanctuary at the beginnings of christianity
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The objective of this reflection on the body as a sanctuary is to find an explanation to why christian communities did not try to build churches during the first three hundred years? First, the biblical texts that reject a temple built by man and then the teachings of Jesus who offers his own body as a sanctuary are studied. Finally, the Panegyric on building the Tyre basilica in Phoenicia (313 A. d.) is analysed, where express innovations are included in christian aesthetics during the first centuries. A relationship is established between this new aesthetics and the attitude of the rural communities in the middle east which remain bound to the original traditions and to the «domestic church» of the first centuries.
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