Larry Hurtado Quotes

• Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

  Larry Hurtado

  Philosophical, Live Your Life, Everyday

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• In Destroyer of the gods I focus on several major features of early Christianity that made it distinctive, even odd or bizarre .We don't today realize just how different early Christianity was in that context.

  Larry Hurtado

  Focus, Today, Different

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• In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).

  Larry Hurtado

  Example, Different, Superstitions

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• Studies of the people named and described in earliest Christian texts show that, right from the earliest years, they included craftsmen, merchants, and owners of businesses. Of course, there were also slaves and poor among believers. By at least the second century, there were also believers from upper levels of Roman society.

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  Christian, Years, People

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• [Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His comments are a kind of back-handed compliment, I suppose.

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  Christian, Example, Able

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• Las "religiones" del mundo romano eran variadas. La mayoría eran prácticas rituales. Había ocasiones periódicas en que las ciudades honraban a sus deidades guardianas con sacrificios y ceremonias, para asegurarse de que se mantuvieran felices y mantuvieran la ciudad a salvo.

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  Sacrifice, Practice, Cities

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• Galen's observations reflect one of the distinctive features of early Christianity. Roman-era religion was mainly about ritual actions vis-à-vis the gods, and there was little to do with ordering behavior otherwise.

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  Littles, Eras, Action

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• Justin Martyr says that he was impressed in his study of the Old Testament, at the seriousness and contents of these writings, and became convinced that Jesus fulfilled these texts.

  Larry Hurtado

  Jesus, Writing, Study

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• Some modern scholars contend that in terms of what "religion" was in that [Roman-era setting], you can't even call Christianity a religion.

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  Eras, Christianity, Modern

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• I think Rodney Stark makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Christianity in posing the kinds of questions that he pursues (which reflect his social-science background).

  Larry Hurtado

  Thinking, Study, Kind

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• I think that Rodney Stark puts his foot wrong on some things where he simply wasn't sufficiently current on scholarly developments.

  Larry Hurtado

  Thinking, Feet, Development

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• Justin's testimony about becoming a Christian is that he had been searching various philosophical traditions of the time, and then accidentally encountered a man who posed questions that pointed Justin [Martyr ] in a new direction.

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  Christian, Philosophical, Men

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• In the Marquette Lecture volume, I focus on the question in the title. I emphasize the social and political costs of being a Christian in the earliest centuries, and contend that many attempts to answer the question are banal. I don't attempt a full answer myself, but urge that scholars should take the question more seriously.

  Larry Hurtado

  Christian, Political, Focus

  Interview With Scot Mcknight, February 18, 2017.

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• Galen recognized, with some considerable puzzlement it seems, that Christians exhibited the virtues that he associated with the discipline of philosophy.

  Larry Hurtado

  Christian, Philosophy, Discipline

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• I offer early Christianity as a case-study to show that the phenomena that we group under "religion(s)" comprise a somewhat artificial category, and that "religions" are not "all the same."

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  Groups, Study, Christianity

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• I think that Rodney Stark studies of new religious movements in the modern world give us some insights into the kinds of questions that we can ask about early Christianity.

  Larry Hurtado

  Religious, Thinking, Giving

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