Want to know what the future has in store for richardflynn.net? Then come and look at the βeta version of the site I’ve been developing. Come and poke around, trying things out, and please, send feedback! I don’t yet know when the new site will be launched definitively, but it’ll be over the course of the next few months. (Written 15th April 2008)

Archive for June 2007

Religions of Greece and Rome: Christianity, diffusion and opposition

Trace and explain the main causes of the rise of Christianity between the Pauline period and the conversion of Constantine. Why did people become Christians?
What did Graeco-Roman polytheists make of the new sect? How soon was it distinguished from Judaism?
Why were Christians persecuted? Did the Church Fathers exaggerate the extent and frequency of persecutions? Was […]

Religions of Greece and Rome: Early Christianity

Was there an early ‘Christianity’, or where there early ‘Christianities’? What other Gospel traditions existed early on beside the Synoptic Gospels? What distinguished these Gospels from the ‘Synoptic’ ones?
How different was ‘early Christianity’ from contemporary Judaism? Would it be right to call ‘early Christianity’ an offshoot or a dialect of Judaism?
How was Christianity organized? What […]