Excerpt - Copyright: "... Potluck paradise : favorite fare from church and community cookbooks / Rae Katherine Eighmey and Debbie Miller ; foreword ..."
Excerpt - Front Matter: "... a common mythology, the early church was not a hermeneutic paradise; rather, debates about what counts as the tradition have been ..."
Excerpt - page 18: "... imagine a landscape of uninterrupted freedom in the countryside-some rural paradise-and we should not expect peasant status to have been homogeneous. ..."