REL 231 - History of the Christian Church
Course Notes
Week 2
Page 46 - The textbook lists some professions which were considered incompatible with Christianity, and includes "anything to do with prostitution"
The Didache, pronounced DID-ah-KHAY, written in the second century, advised that prostitutes who were slave-girls might be allowed to be baptized, because they had no choice in their profession but had to do whatever their owners hired them out for.
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