In the Marquette Lecture volume, I focus on the question in the title. I emphasize the social and political costs of being a Christian in the earliest centuries, and contend that many attempts to answer the question are banal. I… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Studies of the people named and described in earliest Christian texts show that, right from the earliest years, they included craftsmen, merchants, and owners of businesses. Of course, there were also slaves and poor among believers. By at least the… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Justin's testimony about becoming a Christian is that he had been searching various philosophical traditions of the time, and then accidentally encountered a man… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
In the Marquette Lecture volume, I focus on the question in the title. I emphasize the social and political costs of being a Christian… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
I think that Rodney Stark studies of new religious movements in the modern world give us some insights into the kinds of questions that… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Justin Martyr says that he was impressed in his study of the Old Testament, at the seriousness and contents of these writings, and became… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life. — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Studies of the people named and described in earliest Christian texts show that, right from the earliest years, they included craftsmen, merchants, and owners… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
"Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities with sacrifices… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Galen recognized, with some considerable puzzlement it seems, that Christians exhibited the virtues that he associated with the discipline of philosophy. — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
I think that Rodney Stark puts his foot wrong on some things where he simply wasn't sufficiently current on scholarly developments. — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
I think Rodney Stark makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Christianity in posing the kinds of questions that he pursues (which… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
In Destroyer of the gods I focus on several major features of early Christianity that made it distinctive, even odd or bizarre .We don't… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
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