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Amy Brown Hughes

Theologian

Oct 6, 2026

4:02
Yeah
4:02
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4:02
so it's, they're like a combination of some, like a really sort of intense apocalyptic group, Jesus is coming back any time.
4:09
Um, and they also, the, the thing, what's interesting is some people were annoyed by the women participating and prophesying and preaching and doing these things.
4:18
Um, other people were annoyed by their apocalyptic v-views.
4:22
Uh, but none of that is sort of grounds, you know, at least at this point, for real problems and censure by the church.
4:29
Uh, what ended up being, at least r- at the outset, the issue that the sort of broader church community had with them was the fact that they paid their pastors.

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23:15
Yeah, yeah.
27:13
[laughs]
27:14
[laughs] Um, so, uh, there , the early church was...
27:20
I mean, you'll find, you'll find all sorts of things that, that people say.
27:24
I mean, uh, there was, there's some really particularly nasty stuff.
27:28
I mean, uh, Lynn mentioned anti-Judaism earlier, but there's a ton a, there's, there's a lot of nasty stuff around, um, like, uh, especially a little bit later, um, when you have a pretty established tradition of the church of early Christian virgins, like consecrated virginity.
27:44
Um, like, the language that's around, like, what happens when a virgin falls, um, how basically there's no way for her to be redeemed even in the waters of baptism.
27:55
Like, there's a Nic- I think it's Nicetas of Remesiana, if I get his name right.

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39:04
Yeah

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