The Forum with The Rev. Rebecca Lyman: Early Christian Traditions (In-Person)

Rebecca Lyman is the Samuel Garrett Professor of Church History emerita at The Church Divinity School of the Pacific, at the ecumenical and interfaith Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She is also an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of California. Rev. Lyman is an historian of ancient Christianity, focused particularly on the use and abuse of the category of “heresy” in antiquity. In her book, Early Christian Traditions, she introduces us to the world of the early church. Beginning with the Jewish, Greek, and Roman cultures in which the first followers of Jesus lived and worshiped.

Join Malcolm Clemens Young, Dean of Grace Cathedral, for a conversation with Lyman about the often thin line between orthodoxy and heresy, true and false teachers, and the early church’s “family quarrels.”

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