Faith Lab

If Christianity changed after the apostles died, when did it happen? Polycarp is one of the hardest people to ignore if you're asking that question honestly.
He was the bishop of Smyrna, close to the apostolic generation, and his surviving words sound a lot like the faith Christians already know. This episode follows the line from John to Polycarp to Irenaeus, and asks whether the gap after the New Testament is emptier than people think.
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Most Christians assume the end of the story is leaving earth for heaven. N.T. Wright says that is not the story the New Testament is telling. (Listen to Part 1 here, and the full interview here.)
If Christian hope is really resurrection and new creation, then death, salvation, and the church's mission all start to look different.
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The resurrection isn't a theological idea. It's a historical claim. And most people have never heard the actual evidence historians evaluate. (Listen to Part 2 here, and the full interview here.)
NT Wright, one of the world's leading scholars on early Christianity, walks through the case, and explains why the standard skeptical alternatives keep falling apart. Get Surprised by Hope and God's Homecoming
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The resurrection isn't a theological idea. It's a historical claim. And most people have never heard the actual evidence historians evaluate.
NT Wright, one of the world's leading scholars on early Christianity, walks through the case, and explains why the standard skeptical alternatives keep falling apart. Get Surprised by Hope and God's Homecoming
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The resurrection isn't a theological idea. It's a historical claim. And most people have never heard the actual evidence historians evaluate.
NT Wright, one of the world's leading scholars on early Christianity, walks through the case, and explains why the standard skeptical alternatives keep falling apart. Get Surprised by Hope and God's Homecoming
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