Guest: Dr. Stephen Presley | Dr. Arnold interviews Dr. Presley about cultural engagement in the early church. Topics of conversation include, 1) The early church’s response to living in a secular society and what we can learn from their example, 2) The political, cultural, and intellectual challenges experienced by the early church, 3) The call for evangelicals today to make an impact on society through the visible testimony of a transformed life, 4) The unique challenge of Christians losing previously held cultural and political influence, 5) What the goal of cultural engagement should be, 6) Resources in the church fathers for learning how to better engage culturally.

Dr. Stephen Presley is associate professor of Church History and Director of Research Doctoral Studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He holds a PhD from the University of St. Andrews, and is the author of The Intertextual Reception of Genesis 1-3 in Iranaeus of Lyons (Brill Academic, 2015). Dr. Presley is currently working on a book on cultural engagement in the church fathers with Eerdmans.

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