Seven Revolutions: How Christianity Changed the World and by Mike Aquilina,James L. Papandrea

By Mike Aquilina,James L. Papandrea

Combining heritage, politics, and faith, Mike Aquilina and Jim Papandrea supply useful classes to be discovered from the struggles of the Early Church, classes that may be utilized to the day by day lives of Christian readers.
 
Prolonged, a number of wars within the heart East. Waves of immigrants crossing the borders. Ongoing financial recession. expanding political polarization, usually with spiritual overtones. Conflicts over ideologies that pit the revolutionary opposed to the normal. Sound ordinary? those stipulations not just describe the us, however the state of affairs of the Roman Empire within the 3rd century. That scenario resulted in spiritual persecution and the eventual cave in of the empire. in the midst of the 3rd century, the Roman Empire was once approximately an identical age because the usa is now.

In this booklet, authors Mike Aquilina and Jim Papandrea study the practices of the Early Church—a physique of Christians dwelling in Rome—and convey how the teachings realized from those historical Christians can practice to Christians dwelling within the usa at the present time. The publication strikes from the Christian person, to the relatives, the church and the realm, explaining how the placement of the Early Church isn't just prevalent to trendy Christian readers, yet that its values are nonetheless relevant

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