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23 May 11

Back From Pilgrimage: Paul in Asia Minor

I have just returned from Turkey, where my wife and I and Dom and Sarah Crossan led a two-week long pilgrimage. Our focus: Paul and early Christianity in the historical context of the Roman Empire and Roman imperial theology. Rome ruled the world of early Christianity: from Spain in the west, Britain in the north, the [...]

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1 Aug 10

Religion’s Egalitarianism Impulse

Most cultures have been patriarchal, and the world’s religions have for the most part sanctified patriarchy, legitimating it in their teaching and practice. I illustrate with Christianity, the religion I know best. In most Christian cultures, women: * Have been taught to be subordinate to their husbands. * Have been blamed for the presence of [...]

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23 May 10

Yes and No

Yes, Jesus is the Son of God, Lord and Christ; the Light of the World and the Bread of Life; and the Way, Truth and Life. He is all of this for me, as a Christian who is also a historian of early Christianity. And yet I do not think that Jesus spoke of himself [...]

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