Abstract
Abstract The dominant social, political, and cultural elements of the world into which Christianity was born and spread were Hellenism and the Roman Empire. Hellenism has been called “the civilization of the paideia”—which means very roughly, “education.” It was a cultural force that at its best valued men and women neither for their race nor their religion nor even for their sex, but for their education, by which was meant not general education in our sense, but knowledge and understanding of Hellenistic literature and culture. The Roman Empire was the dominant political fact of the time: Roman imperial power was everywhere apparent.
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