{"id":7538,"date":"2012-08-23T19:05:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/for\/?p=7538"},"modified":"2012-08-27T12:35:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T12:35:49","slug":"tusculum%e2%80%99s-williams-publishes-book-on-persecution-in-the-early-christian-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/news\/2012\/tusculum%e2%80%99s-williams-publishes-book-on-persecution-in-the-early-christian-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Tusculum\u2019s Williams publishes book on persecution in the early Christian world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tusculum College\u2019s Dr. Travis B. Williams, visiting professor of religious studies, will release his first book, \u201cPersecution in 1 Peter: Differentiating and Contextualizing Early Christian Suffering\u201d in November.<\/p>\n<p>The book is to be published as a part of the \u201cNovum Testamentum Supplement\u201d series published by the academic press, Brill. The book, an adaptation of Williams\u2019 dissertation from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, is an academic analysis of persecution early Christians suffered. In the book, Williams argues that after the persecution by Nero (ca. 64 CE) Christianity was effectively illegal, although not officially illegal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really is an ambitious undertaking because the book challenges several currently accepted academic views on the early Christian world,\u201d said Williams.<\/p>\n<p>The book also takes into account several individual experiences of the time, using examples of early Christian social groups such as women, slaves and business owners, Williams uses these views to differentiate accounts of the early Christian experience.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is also contracted to have a second book that is expected to be published in 2014. Its focus is on the concept of good works in 1 Peter and acts as a complimentary volume to \u201cPersecution in 1 Peter: Differentiating and Contextualizing Early Christian Suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7540\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7540\" href=\"http:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/news\/2012\/tusculum%e2%80%99s-williams-publishes-book-on-persecution-in-the-early-christian-world\/attachment\/traviswilliamsweb\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7540\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7540 \" title=\"traviswilliamsweb\" src=\"http:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/traviswilliamsweb-290x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Travis Williams<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In this second book, Williams challenges long-held academic beliefs that good works are defined by community standards, meaning that they were approved of or favorably recognized by the wider society. Instead he argues that rather than conforming to the standards of their \u201cpagan\u201d neighbors, good works were acts associated with the exercise and promulgation of the Christian religion, which were regulated solely by the will of God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis book offers a whole new view on 1 Peter and due to the time frame of 1 Peter\u2019s writing, it changes academic views on the nature of early persecution as represented in the New Testament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersecution in 1 Peter: Differentiating and Contextualizing Early Christian Suffering\u201d is available for pre-order on the Brill publications website, www.brill.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tusculum College\u2019s Dr. Travis B. 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