A Luncheon Lecture with Robert Louis Wilken

When: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 12 Noon | Lunch will be served

Where: Ben Franklin Room (Houston 218)

How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and intellectually? Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of Christianity over the first thousand years of its history. Moving through the formation of early institutions, practices, and beliefs to the transformations of the Roman world after the conversion of Constantine, he sheds new light on the subsequent stories of Christianity in the Latin West, the Byzantine and Slavic East, the Middle East, and Central Asia. In this luncheon lecture, Dr. Wilken will be speaking about the book that was ten years in the making.

Robert Louis Wilken is an Emeritus William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia and a Distinguished Fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. Wilken is a highly distinguished scholar of early Christianity, and author of numerous books, including The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (Yale, 2012), The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God (Yale, 2005), The Christians as the Romans Saw Them (Yale, 2003), and Remembering the Christian Past (Eerdmans, 1995).

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