The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries
Essays in Explanation
Published on 28. October 2005
Book
Hardback
178 pages
978-90-04-14717-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries: Essays in Explanation attempts to show how contemporary historical scholarship, or rather a selection of its exponents, views the perennial question why a new religion, indeed a new kind of religion, succeeded in subverting the other religions of the Roman Empire in the first three centuries and in the generations immediately following the 'conversion' of the usurper Constantine in 312.
Reviews / Votes
'..this book is valuable because it does challenge some of our traditional viewpoints on why the Christians eventually managed to gain victory.'Hennie Stander, Review of Biblical Literature, 2006
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
449 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-14717-1 (9789004147171)
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Person
William V. Harris teaches Greek and Roman History at Columbia University. His most recent books are Restraining Rage: the Ideology of Anger-Control in Classical Antiquity (2002), and (as editor and contributor) Rethinking the Mediterranean (2005).