On De-Reifying Traditional Boundaries: Christian vs. Greco-Roman

Thomas J. Whitley Last month I wrote about a group of early Christians that believed in the transmigration of souls (or, reincarnation). One of the factors that I suggested contributed to modern scholars not accepting the Carpocratians as Christians or transmigration as a “Christian” belief is the delineation between the categories “Greco-Roman” and “Christian.” Thus, when a person orRead the rest of this entry →