“Jesus is lord, not Caesar.” Many scholars and preachers attribute mistreatment of early Christians by Roman authorities to this fundamental confessional conflict, according to D. Clint Burnett, author of Paul and Imperial Divine Honors: Christ, Caesar, and the Gospel (Eerdmans Publishing, 2024). In his new book, Burnett examines copious evidence—literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and archaeological—to more accurately reconstruct Christian engagement with imperial divine honors, with a focus on the cities of Philippi, Thessalonica, and Corinth. Burnett argues that early Christianity was not specifically anti-government but more broadly countercultural, and that responses to this stance ranged from conflict to apathy. His compelling argument challenges common assumptions about the first Christians’ place in the Roman Empire. Burnett earned a Ph.D. in biblical studies from Boston College. The book’s foreword was written by BC’s Joseph Professor of Catholic Spirituality Pheme Perkins.