The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries: Essays in Explanation: 27 (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004147179 ISBN 13: 9789004147171

Publisher: Brill, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

'..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

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 9004147179
• ISBN 13: 9789004147171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 178
• Editor: Harris Professor Of History William V