#138 An evening with NT Wright at The Rock Church
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The Crusader's Cross in the Roman World
By the late 40s AD within 20 years of Jesus' crucifixion, people were writing poems celebrating the fact that the cross was now not simply this hideous weapon of Roman brutality. St. Paul grew up in a town called Tarsus, which was one of the two or three great centers of philosophy in the ancient world. In the ancient world philosophy wasn't something that a few eggheads went off and studied in college and came back talking incomprehensible nonsense. The early Christians emerged into a pluriform world. They took it on.
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