- Christian sociology, Church history, History, Primitive and early church
The idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor is a widely accepted notion. Yet it is one of many myths that must be discarded if we are to understand just how a tiny messianic movement on the edge of the Roman Empire became the dominant faith of Western civilization.
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Cool, earnest, classical in form and grave.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Rodney Stark
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 246
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press, HarperSanFrancisco
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060677015
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