The Eye of the Needle

Major Theme: Expansion & Preservation—how the improbable growth of the early Church led to the transformation of the Roman Empire, […]

Major Theme: The “Intellectual Victory”—how Christianity moved from a “superstition” of the marginalized to the dominant philosophical framework of the

Major Theme: The “Social Revolution”—how the Gospel dismantled the rigid hierarchies of the ancient world, creating a radical new community

Major Theme: The “Messiah No One Expected”—how the Person of Jesus Christ was a total subversion of historical, political, and

Major Theme: The “Fullness of Time”—how the Roman Empire unwittingly provided the exact historical and sociological conditions required for the

Major Theme: The historical and sociological “impossibilities” surrounding the preservation and structure of ancient Judaism as a unique precursor to