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One Big Happy Family: Facing the Beasts of Empire


  • Southminster Presbyterian Church 12250 SW Denney Rd Beaverton, OR 97008 (map)

Beaverton, OR

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The early Jesus movements emerged as the Roman empire came under one-man rule. With Caesar Augustus, power relationships started changing at every level, from the administration of a vast empire, to the family form on which it was built, and even to understandings of what it meant to be a self. Early Christ groups and others responded in myriad ways. How are their forms of resistance relevant today?

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