Commission - How the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe heard about Jesus

In session one of this bi-weekly interactive course, we will explore how the message of Jesus spread from a backwater of the Roman Empire to most of the known world within the first century.

Topics discussed in session 1 will include but not be limited to:

The process and impact of Hellenization
The advantageous (and not so advantageous) advances of the Roman Empire
What happened to Jesus' initial followers
How Christianity spread in the first century