Re-Thinking the Christ Movements of the First Two Centuries
St Michael's Uniting Church 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, AustraliaThe Friday night lecture anticipates and introduces the amazing diversity, social innovation, and humour-filled challenge to Roman imperialism that the four Saturday lectures will deepen. This is a stunning challenge to the conventional picture of the so-called “early churches.” The dynamic beginnings of the early Jesus communities are legendary but sometimes forgotten or contested. There...