In the last chapter of his book Promise and Poison: The Story of Emerging Christianity, John Van Hagen writes: My purpose in writing this book is to present the efforts of emerging Christianity to ...

Hans-Josef Klauck, a towering figure in biblical studies, renowned for his extensive knowledge of early Christian literature and the Greco-Roman world, died March 27 in Munich, Germany. Klauck, the ...

Distinguishing speculation from historical fact. Hundreds of articles and scores of books have been written in the last 150 years seeking to establish what the early (pre-Constantinian) church thought ...

How the early church’s example of public witness helps us avoid the extremes of triumphalism and retreat. Early on in my reading and study of early Christianity, I was struck by an assertion from an ...

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Prologue: Reintroducing the earliest Christian manuscripts -- The early Christian book -- The dating game -- Finding early Christian books in Egypt -- A discovery "which threw all others in the shade" ...

One subject that never dies, and, more significantly, never bores, is the life and times of the first-century Jewish rabbi and martyr Jesus, whose followers founded a religion in his name, or, rather, ...

The latest issue of The New Yorker includes an essay by Adam Gopnik, “We’re Still Not Done With Jesus,” on the scholarly debates about the origins of Christianity. In the piece, Gopnik positions ...

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