Name: How Paganism Got “Skewed”
Uploaded: 2009-12-15T16:37:00-05:00
Duration: 4 min 47 s
Description: Professor Luke Timothy Johnson examines how early Christian polemic caricatured pagans and describes the real relationship between Greco-Roman religion and early Christianity.

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