(Missed part 5? Read it here. Or start from the beginning.) The Gap Having looked at the First-Century Greco-Roman culture, we now leap forward more than a millennium-and-a-half to the Victorian era. It isn’t really clear why. Presumably we are supposed to accept the premise that Christianity swooped in and overturned everything modern egalitarians don’t […]
Examining Beyond Authority and Submission (part 5)
(Missed part 4? Read it here. Or start from the beginning.) Perversions of Truth Do Not Negate Truth That loooong quote from Plato in the previous post makes clear that even within the thinking of a single individual, there may have been a lot more nuance than the quotes in Beyond Authority and Submission might suggest. Miller […]
Examining Beyond Authority and Submission (part 4)
(Missed part 3? Read it here. Or start from the beginning.) Greco-Roman History Having (supposedly) laid a foundation in the first section, Rachel Green Miller now turns to history. The aim is to paint us a picture of the culture into which Christianity was first introduced, so we can then see how Christianity overturned all […]
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