Destroyer of the gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World by Larry W. Hurtado

Author:Larry W. Hurtado [Hurtado, Larry W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: REL015000 Religion / Christianity / History, HIS002020 History / Ancient / Rome, REL108020 Religion / Christian Church / History
ISBN: 9781481305389
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2016-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

The Roman-Era Setting

In ascribing a distinctiveness to early Christianity in certain social and behavioral practices, I intend no stereotype of the Roman era—for example, as one of simple decadence and a moral wasteland. Certainly, there was cruelty and decadence then, as (with variations in specifics) in pretty much any other time, including our own. But we should not imagine the ordinary people of the Roman period as depraved and cruel.1 Instead of such assumptions, we should presume with good reason that, whatever their individual lapses in behavior, most ordinary people likely tried to take care of their families as they saw best how to do it; professed and hoped for fair play, honest dealings, and justice; admired generosity and self-restraint; and in general held these and some other values not all that different from the best of our time.

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