Through a study of the writers of the post-New Testament period; this book shows how "Christianity" was forged as "the religion of empire;" undermining the New Testament's proclamation of Jesus as upholder of the "religion of creation;" two categories laid out in Howard-Brook's earlier volume; "Come Out; My People": God's Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond (Orbis 2010). Using writers from Alexandria (Clement; Origen; and Athanasius) and North Africa (Tertullian; Cyprian and Augustine) as test cases; Howard-Brook traces how Platonic and Stoic philosophy on the one hand; and Roman imperial culture; on the other; were taken for granted by these writers in creating"Christianity."
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