Jeremiah J. Johnston

Featured in 4 lessons

• Early Christianity in Context

  Early Christianity in Its First-Century Context

  How does the Second Temple Jewish and Greco-Roman world change our reading of the New Testament?

• Why Christianity, Not Generic Theism?

  Jesus Against Second Temple Expectations

  Did Jesus fit the Messianic expectations of first-century Judaism — or subvert them?

• Morality Without God?

  Human Dignity: Borrowed Capital?

  Where does our shared intuition about the inviolable worth of every human being come from?

• Common Objections

  Did the Apostles Conspire to Invent Christianity for Power and Control?

  Could a group of first-century authors have coordinated a religious story and used it historically as an instrument of oppression, power, and crowd control?