Wes Watkins (formerly Warrick Farah)

Gods, Emperors, Philosophers, and a New Movement

History & Biography

“I’ve visited more than ten places where the Apostle Paul once walked, and I can honestly say I wish I’d had this book in hand during those visits—I would have learned so much more! Yet even more importantly, this book demonstrates that the early Jesus movement was deeply and intelligently engaged with its surrounding culture. By skillfully tracing the language, symbols, and social contexts of the first centuries, Michael Cooper shows how the early church used polemical parallelism to reveal that Jesus is better. Gods, Emperors, Philosophers, and a New Movement masterfully weaves missiology, ecclesiology, and archaeology into an engaging and accessible narrative. Only Michael Cooper could have written this book.”