Faith in the City: How the Early Church Flourished in Urban Centers
“The same kind of Christians we have always been” – Interview of Karen Swallow Prior, author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me (2012) and Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More – Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist (2014) and professor of English at Liberty University, about how Christians ought to live as citizens in the culture.
Christianity goes to town - How Christianity changed the Roman Empire’s urban spaces, by Allan Doig, a fellow, chaplain, and tutor for graduates at Lady Margaret Hall and a member of the faculty of theology in the University of Oxford. He is the author of Liturgy and Architecture: From the Early Church to the Middle Ages
“God has given us the earth as a gift” – Interview of Jill Sornson Kurtz, a professional architect with a particular interest in designing sustainable buildings for everyday life, on her work as a Christian in the building industry today.
Citizens of no mean cities – A tour of the greatest cities of late antiquity, by Angelo Di Berardino, past president and current professor of patrology at the Augustinian Patristic Institute (Augustinianum) in Rome, author of the Historical Atlas of Early Christianity
“The transformative love of God in our lives” Interview of Greg Forster is director of the Oikonomia Network at the Center for Transformational Churches, Trinity International University. These reflections on Christians and culture are adapted from a blog series at The Green Room.
Christian History Institute
www.ChristianHistoryInstitute.org
Worcester, PA
December 5, 2017
Category: Church History, Fall 2017