Christianity’s debt to Rome
About this episode
The episode explores the cultural debt of Christianity to the Roman Empire through a discussion of Tim Whitmarsh's new book.
What does Christ’s Kingdom owe to the culture of the Roman Empire? Tim Whitmarsh speaks to EI’s Alastair Benn about his new book, Rome’s Age of Revolution: Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity. Image: A statue of Augustus Caesar in Turin. Credit: Alamy
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