Birth of a Worldview

Robert Doran is professor of religion at Amherst College.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Christians and the Roman World: A Sense of BelongingChapter 3 Cosmos: The Quest for OrderChapter 4 Jews in the Roman EmpireChapter 5 The First Steps: Articulating AlienationChapter 6 The Source of PowerChapter 7 The Human ConditionChapter 8 "Neither Male nor Female"

Through succinct discussion and frequent, extensive citations of primary sources, Doran brings alive the diverse ways Christian intellectuals from the first to the fifth centuries expressed their understanding of the cosmos and their place in it.