L. Michael White, Ph.D.

From Jesus to Christianity

How Four Generations of Visionaries & Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith

Talking Points

L. MICHAEL WHITE, a popular professor of classics and Christian origins at the University of Texas, was the central figure in the successful PBS special “From Jesus to Christ.” He is an expert on early Christianity and can speak to the changes in theology and practice from Jesus’s early followers to what later became orthodox Christian dogma of the church centuries later.

Description

Rather than reading the New Testament straight through in its traditional, or “canonical,” order, White takes a historical and chronological approach to see what they divulge about the disagreements, shared values, and unifying mission of the earliest Christian communities.