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The Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies

The Research, Preservation and Distribution of Early Christian Culture

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The purpose of the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (MCECS) is to bring the study of Christian origins and Christian antiquity into the center of higher education and intellectual discourse. 

We welcome you to browse our website to learn more about the activities of MCECS that help support the expansion of Early Christian Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. Examine our Mission, Objectives and Goals, as well as the Background and Rationale for the Center, the Opportunities we hope to take advantage of, and the extraordinary resources already present at the University of Michigan in early Christian studies.

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Learning the historical developments behind Christianity is essential to understand its place amid religious pluralism, its eclectic theology, and cross-cultural relevance in a postmodern society.
Rodney A. Caruthers II
Rodney A. Caruthers IIPh.D., Visiting Assistant Professor and Bruce Gray Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Religion, Gustavus Adolphus College
One cannot understand Western Civilization as well as the development of Rabbinic Judaism and Islam without the study of Early Christianity.
Gabriele Boccaccini
Gabriele BoccacciniPh.D., Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, University of Michigan

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The Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies co-sponsors with the Department of Middle East Studies free educational events around cultural programs at the University of Michigan and at other locations

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