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The rise of Christianity : how the obscure, marginal Jesus movement became the dominant religious force in the Western world in a few centuries /
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TextPublication details: New York Harper Collins Publishers ©1997Edition: First HarperCollins Paperback editionDescription: xiv, 246 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cmISBN: - 0060677015
- 9780060677015
- 306.6/701 21
- BR166 .S75 1997
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Summary: Examines the rise of Christianity from a tiny messianic movement to the dominant faith of Western civilization and explores the elements that contributed to its rapid growth.
Conversion and Christian growth -- The class basis of early Christianity -- The mission to the Jews : why it probably succeeded -- Epidemics, networks, and conversion -- The role of women in Christian growth -- Christianizing the urban empire : a quantitative approach -- Urban chaos and crisis : the case of Antioch -- The martyrs : sacrifice as rational choice -- Opportunity and organization -- A brief reflection on virtue.
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| ARCH YNDC 270.1 S296N V.6 Nicene and post-Nicene fathers. First series / | ARCH YNDC 270.1 S626I In the shadow of the temple : | ARCH YNDC 270.1 S786A Early Christian writings : the Apostolic Fathers / | ARCH YNDC 270.1 S795R The rise of Christianity : how the obscure, marginal Jesus movement became the dominant religious force in the Western world in a few centuries / | ARCH YNDC 270.1 T377 S Social reality and the early Christians : theology, ethics, and the world of the New Testament / | ARCH YNDC 270.1 T377S Social reality and the early Christians : theology, ethics, and the world of the New Testament / | ARCH YNDC 270.1 W823W Women in the earliest churches / |
Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1996.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-242) and index.
Conversion and Christian growth -- The class basis of early Christianity -- The mission to the Jews : why it probably succeeded -- Epidemics, networks, and conversion -- The role of women in Christian growth -- Christianizing the urban empire : a quantitative approach -- Urban chaos and crisis : the case of Antioch -- The martyrs : sacrifice as rational choice -- Opportunity and organization -- A brief reflection on virtue.
Examines the rise of Christianity from a tiny messianic movement to the dominant faith of Western civilization and explores the elements that contributed to its rapid growth.
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