The Surprise of Christianity

A few years ago you published a book called Christianity's Surprise. What do you mean by the surprise of Christianity and what were some of the motivations for writing that that book? Sure so that book is written for a more popular audience and it originally was going to be a long scholarly thing but for a variety of reasons I knew I wasn't going to be able to do that, says Bocknell. It really was something that evolved out of years of teaching and reading the primary sources and thinking about the ancient worldChristianity has been around for two millennia and has penetrated into almost every layer of the North Atlantic West culture whether it's there positively or it's there in ways that people don't