Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliotâs World War IIâera thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and âmodern paganism,â Smith argues in this book that todayâs culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smithâs Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in todayâs most controversial issues.
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