Lecture by Dr. Nijay Gupta: What Made the First Christians Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling?

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Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and lived a unique lifestyle. They practiced a whole new way of thinking about and doing religion that would have been seen as bizarre and dangerous by many Roman people. In this lecture, Dr. Gupta will outline how our spiritual ancestors can inspire us to be strange in all the best ways today as part of God's "good news" movement in Christ.

Dr. Nijay K. Gupta serves as Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary. He has published over twenty books including the best-selling and award-winning Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church. His expertise is in the letters of Paul; Gupta has co-edited the Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (2nd ed.) and The State of Pauline Studies.

He co-hosts the popular podcast Slow Theology and regularly writes for Christianity Today and Christian Century. Gupta also serves as a senior translator for the New Living Translation.

Find out more about Dr. Gupta here: https://www.seminary.edu/faculty/nijay-gupta/