The marvelous (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot ), New York Times bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant Religion in the West.
This humane, thoughtful and intelligent book ( The New York Times Book Review ) upends the way we think about the single most important cultural transformation our World has ever seen--one that revolutionized art, music, literature, philosophy, ethics, economics, and law..
Ehrman weaves the rigorously-researched answer to this question into a vivid, nuanced, and enormously readable narrative (Elaine Pagels, National Book Award-winning author of The Gnostic Gospels ), showing how a handful of charismatic characters used a brilliant social strategy and an irresistible message to win over hearts and minds one at a time.
How did a Religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official Religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four centuries? In The Triumph of Christianity , early Christian historian Bart D.
The marvelous (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot ), New York Times bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant Religion in the West
