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Many of us tend to live as though Jesus represents the “spiritual part” of our lives. We don’t clearly see how he relates to the rest of our experiences, desires, and habits. How can Jesus, the Bible, and Christianity become more than a compartmentalized part of our lives? Highly regarded New Testament scholar and popular teacher Jonathan Pennington argues that we need to recover the lost...

All of this is described autobiographically by Justin in what became his very famous book Dialogue with Trypho. This book was written in the classical dialogue style (first made famous by Socrates and Plato), where the teaching mode is an intense conversation. Dialogue comes from sometime in the 150s or 160s, after Justin had moved to Rome and set up a Christian philosophy/discipleship school. This autobiographical info from Justin has a purpose. Dialogue tells the story of a Jewish man named Trypho
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