How do early Christian beliefs about God appear when compared with the beliefs of others in the Roman empire? This is the task the author sets for himself in this book designed to take down the fen…
In this series of reflections on the mystery of Jesus and the questions that surround him, noted New Testament scholar Wayne Meeks redirects the course of the Jesus debates. Insisting that we cease…
How shall we understand the ethics of the first Christians? Obviously there are many facts about them which we need to learn, but even more important thatn the facts are the questions taht we ask. …
By the time Christianity became a political and cultural force in the Roman Empire, it had come to embody a new moral vision. This wise and eloquent book describes the formative years--from the cru…
How many of us can say that we really understasnd the Bible? Its stories ttake place in distant lands and remote times that we know about only dimly. The customs of its people are often strange to …