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?
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Introduction: Christianity in the Second Century
Jesus Christ, St John, and the Secrets of the Temple
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The Gospel According to St. John
St John and the ‘Johannine Tradition’: Part 1
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Mass of the Ages, Part 1 : A Review
Prophecy in the Early Church, Part 2
Prophecy in the Early Church, Part 1
The Day I Saw St. Peter's Bones!
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Was Peter the First Pope?
The Fall of Jerusalem (Part 2)
The Fall of Jerusalem (Part 1)
A First Century Baptism, (Part 2)
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