This is Part 1 of the conversation with Dr. Nadya Williams about her book Cultural Christians in the Early Church; a book that argues that cultural Christians were the rule, rather than the exception, in the early church. While focusing on the Christians in the 1st to 5th centuries, their stories provide a fresh perspective for considering the difficult timeless questions that stubbornly persist in our own world and churches.
Dr. Nadya Williams is a Classics Historian who brings her knowledge of the culture and writings generated in the Greco-Roman world to bear on the early church. While modern people in their struggle against institutionalized church tend to look back at the earliest Christians as those who wear halos, Dr. Williams says, "Not so fast." In this conversation, Dr. Williams introduces us to her own multi-country, multi-lingual, and multi-faith context growing up and how that shaped her view of God today. Then we dive into the types of Greco-Roman cultural norms that proved challenging for the earliest Christians to shed.
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