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Outreach 2025 Recommended Resource of the Year (Culture)
The first Christians were weird.
Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and practiced a whole new way of doing religion that would have been viewed as bizarre and dangerous compared to other religions of the ancient world.
In Strange Religion, award-winning author and New Testament teacher Nijay Gupta traces the emerging Christian faith in its Roman context, showing how the first Christians
● dared to be different and pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable
● believed, worshipped, and lived in radical ways
● transformed how others thought about religion
● started a movement that grew like wildfire
Brought to life with numerous images, this book shows how the example of the earliest Christians can offer today's believers encouragement and hope.
"A fresh and rigorously researched take on Christianity's founding."--Publishers Weekly
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Becoming Christian
1. Roman Religion and the Pax Deorum: Keeping Peace with the Gods
2. "Believers": The First Christians and the Transformation of Religion
3. A Dangerous and Strange Religion: Christianity as a Superstition
Part 2: What the First Christians Believed
4. Believing the Unbelievable
5. Cult without Smoke and Blood: Strange Worship
6. Possessed by the Spirit of God
7. Beginning at the End of All Things: A Strange Reckoning of Time
Part 3: How the First Christians Worshiped
8. A Household of Faith: The Family Practices of the Early Christians
9. A Priest-God and a Priestly People: Church as a Liturgical Community
Part 4: How the First Christians Lived
10. Dangerous Contact: Becoming Godlike
11. To Treat All as Equal
12. The Christians Were Not Perfect
Strange Religion: Putting It All Together
