Description: Cultural Christians in the Early Church considers the challenge of culture to the earliest converts to Christianity, as they struggled to live on mission in the Greco-Roman cultural milieu of the Roman Empire, and argues that cultural Christians were the rule, rather than the exception, in the early church.
Brief description:
Nadya Williams received her Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University and is a military historian of the Greco-Roman world. After fifteen years as a Professor of Ancient History and Classics, she left academia to focus on homeschooling her children and writing for the church. She is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church (Zondervan Academic, 2023), Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic (IVP Academic, 2024), Christians Reading Classics (Zondervan Academic, 2025), and the co-editor (with Nicola Foote) of Civilians and Warfare in World History (Routledge, 2017).
She is books editor for Mere Orthodoxy. She is also a regular contributor to Christianity Today, contributing editor for Providence Magazine and Front Porch Republic, and featured author at Fairer Disputations. Her essays and reviews have also appeared in Current, Plough, Law and Liberty, Religion and Liberty, The Dispatch, The Gospel Coalition, Comment, Common Good Magazine, and more.
Review Quotes: 'After reading this book I will be more careful when I invoke the so-called 'countercultural' nature of the ancient church when criticizing the cultural captivity of American evangelicals. Nadya Williams is a model for how to think about the relationship between the past and the present.'--John Fea, professor of American history, Messiah University