In Part One of this episode, we flip the table a bit and try to understand Rome’s relationship to her gods *from the inside out* so that we can paint a fuller picture of the religious landscape of Christianity’s rise in Late Antiquity. Heretofore, many scholars have argued that early Christianity was able to spread so rapidly because the religion(s) of the Roman Empire had increasingly lost vitality and failed to fulfill emerging soteriological hopes of Late Antique peoples. But, is any of this true? Is this merely the residue of centuries of anti-pagan bias and propaganda? What was Roman religion *really* like; how captivating was it; and why did the fledgling Christian movement cause such concern for some of the brightest Roman minds of the second century?
Marcionism and the Rule of Faith
Why God Became Man and What It Did to Demons
Erick Ybarra's Conversion Story
Orthodox Christian Blogger Converts to Catholicism!
Roman Views of Christianity
Exorcism in the Early Church
A Second Century Liturgy (Part 2)
Mass in the Second Century, Part 1
Women Priests in the Early Church???
Icon Veneration is CLEARLY an Accretion ! (And a proper one, at that)
Pope Benedict XVI
Women in Early Christianity (Part 1)
Eucharistic Theology in Early Martyrdom Accounts
Two Powers in Heaven and the Parting of the Ways (Part 2)
When did Christianity and Judaism Part Ways? (Part 1)
Did St Peter Leave a Successor in Rome?
Why do we worship on Sunday instead of Saturday?
How Was Jesus Crucified?
Saint Ignatius and the Amphitheater
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