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Divine Honours for the Caesars: The First Christians’ Responses is unavailable, but you can change that!

Though the first century A. D. saw the striking rise and expansion of Christianity throughout the vast Roman Empire, ancient historians have shown that an even stronger imperial cult spread far more rapidly at the same time. How did the early Jesus-followers cope with the all-pervasive culture of emperor worship? This authoritative study by Bruce Winter explores the varied responses of...

the contemporary world that troubled the Christians. Their responses during the first three centuries of the empire consisted essentially of passive resistance.38 The aim in this work then is to further the discussion of imperial cultic activities and the complexity they created for the first Christians with different reactions to this all-pervasive, high-profile first-century reality. It will be argued there was not one but a variety of responses to the diverse celebrations at the time the early
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