Tim Whitmarsh: Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity
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Episode: Tim Whitmarsh: Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity
Pub date: 2026-07-14
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My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Tim Whitmarsh, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge and author of Rome’s Age of Revolution: Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity. He tells me why, contrary to what we may have learnt at Sunday school, early Christianity flourished not despite the Roman empire, but because of it.
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