Welcome
Welcome to christianorigins.org. This site began some nine years ago as a gateway for resources relevant to the study of earliest Christianity that had started to appear online. I am afraid that I have long ago conceded defeat and have been unable to expend the time necessary to keep abreast of the proliferation of such material. Those of you who came to this site looking for a comprehensive and reliable gateway for studying early Christianity should go to Mark Goodacre's excellent ntgateway.com
Rather than providing a gateway to other resources, I shall be developing christianorigins.org to provide support for the various research, teaching and media projects in which I am currently engaged - mostly, but not exclusively, concerned with the first Chrsitians. I have a broad range of other interests in the study of religion and have a particular passion for helping to faclitate informed and critical thinking in the public understanding of religion and religions in the UK today - about which, a lot of rubbish is spoken by a lot of people.
Research Interests
My research interests include the following: early Christianity in its social context; the historical Jesus; Roman religion; the history of (ancient) medicine; sociology and anthropology of sectarianism and apocalypticism; religion and ancient popular culture; the relationship between religion and economics, secularism, and anarchism; seventeenth-century religious radicalism and interreligious encounter.
I supervise in a number of these areas and am happy to hear from any potential graduate students. However, before contacting me do make sure that you have had a look at the information for potential graduate students provided by the Faculty of Divinity.