Christendom’s response to plague and pandemic: Tom Holland, Mike Bird and Rev Marcus Walker

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Historian Tom Holland, author of ‘Dominion’ recaps his debate with AC Grayling and talks about his recent article for The Telegraph arguing for the Christian roots of the response we are seeing to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Also joining the conversation are New Testament scholar Mike Bird co-author of ‘The New Testament In Its World’, and Rev Marcus Walker, priest as St Bartholomew the Great, London. They discuss the history of how the early church responded to plagues and how the church is responding to this present pandemic.
For Tom Holland’s book Dominion https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dominion-Making-Western-Tom-Holland/dp/1408706962 
For Mike Bird https://www.patheos.com/blogs/euangelion/michael-birds-book/
For Rev Marcus Walker https://twitter.com/WalkerMarcus 
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Released on 15 May 2020

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