Ancient Christianity | Official Trailer

foreign [Music] s in world history ruled out of Rome by a man named Caesar Augustus who understood himself to be the son of a god is about to be challenged by a baby in a Manger the audacious message of the Old and New Testament is in the time of the Egyptians the Babylonians the Assyrians the Greeks and the Romans the god of the universe actually revealed himself to humanity this is the message that this God that is transcendent is also imminent the Roman Empire enters into absolute insanity and to have empire-wide persecutions it truly is miraculous that Christianity has survived to the 21st century in order to understand the religion we claim you need to step outside it and see how different it is from other things like it and as a matter of Faith you can learn where all that comes from the heights of all of this is the Incarnation of God this is a god that is not only willing to die but is able to die how do you explain such a thing what kind of words what kind of language do you use this is the challenge of the early Christians out of the collapse of the western half of the Roman Empire comes pure chaos but out of that chaos comes faith I'm Ken Calvert this is our course on Ancient Christianity let let's begin [Music] foreign

Channel: Hillsdale College

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Length: 2min 8sec (128 seconds)

Published: Tue May 02 2023