The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 12): Christian Persecution in the Roman Empire
Now we come to the final topic regarding early Christianity in the Roman Empire: persecution. Two things must be said up front: first, despite what some might t...
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The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 11): Early Christian Philosophers–Tertullian and Irenaeus of Lyons
In my last post, I began to look at a number of Christian philosophers from the first couple of centuries of the early Church who proved themselves to be some o...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 10): Early Christian Philosophers: Justin Martyr, Athenagoras of Athens, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen of Alexandria
As was discussed in last week’s post, not only was Christianity probably the most significant counter-cultural movement in history in terms of practical, day to...
The Way of the Worldviews (Part 9): Christianity in Ancient Rome–The True Counter-Cultural Movement
In my last post, I took a brief look at life in ancient Rome. Simply put, despite the impressive monuments we love to “ooh” and “ahh” over, the fact is that dai...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 8): Early Christianity within Roman Society–When in Rome (prepare for a horrible life!)
As the apostles of Jesus made their way out into the pagan world, they preached and lived out something entirely new that would ultimately change the world. Now...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 7): Early Christianity–a Fulfilled Judaism
It was into this world of Greek philosophy, Roman imperial might, and rampant paganism that Jesus of Nazareth was born. Of course, the “genesis-point,” if you w...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 6): Ancient Rome (and how the USA is its reincarnation)
With the rise of the Roman Empire, there is yet another aspect to the ancient world that is relevant to understanding our world today. It was within this world ...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 5): Classical Greek Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, and Cynics…Oh My!
The philosophy of Plato and Aristotle ended up having a great deal of significance throughout Church history (as we will eventually see). Yet our understanding ...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 4): Classical Greek Philosophy: Aristotle–Finding the Universals in the Particulars
Aristotle was Plato’s student, just as Plato had been the student of Socrates (He’s the guy in in blue, in the middle of the picture, pointing downwards)....
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 3): The Philosophy of Classical Greece: Plato’s Academy…Virtues, Forms, and What’s Really Real
Alfred North Whitehead famously stated that the Western philosophical tradition “consists in a series of footnotes to Plato.” This statement is perhaps a bit si...