This is Part 2 of the conversation with Dr. Nadya Williams about her book Cultural Christians in the Early Church. This book 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. This is Part 2 of our conversation regarding her book Cultural Christians in the Early Church. Dr. Williams discusses popular, best-selling Roman literature and how that illuminates how radical the teachings of Jesus are and how challenging living counter-culturally was for the early church. While we explore the earliest church, the persecuted church, and the connected-to-empire church, we hear echoes of all of these cultural movements in the modern church.
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