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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. In particular, the MCECS vision is to promote the study of early Christianity as one of the major foundations of Western Culture.

Please browse our website to learn more about the activities of MCECS that help support the expansion of Early Christian Studies in the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan. You can examine our mission and goals, background and rationale for the Center, the opportunities we hope to take advantage of, upcoming MCECS sponsored events, and the extraordinary resources already present at the University of Michigan in early Christian studies.

If you would like to support our work, please contact us or make a donation.

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
The academic study of Christianity has a very important place in the education of students at the University of Michigan.
Ellen Muhlberger
Ellen MuhlbergerProfessor of History and Middle East Studies, University of Michigan
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The Michigan Center is pleased to present events in 2020 -21 that again emphasize the contributions of Christianity and Christian antiquity to the foundations of Western and American Culture. Due

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