The Rise of Christianity

  • The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History
    The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History
    By Rodney Stark

    In a fast-paced, highly readable book that addresses beliefs as well as historical facts, Rodney Stark brings a sociologist's perspective to bear on the puzzle behind the success of early Christianity.

  • The Rise of Christianity: How to obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force ....
    The Rise of Christianity: How to obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force ....
    By Rodney Stark

    "Anyone who has puzzled over Christianity's rise to dominance...must read it." says Yale University's Wayne A. Meeks, for The Rise of Christianity makes a compelling case for startling conclusions.

  • The Rise of Christianity: History, Documents, and Key Questions
    The Rise of Christianity: History, Documents, and Key Questions
    By Kevin W. Kaatz

    apt for baptism: if there is a difference in the solemnity, distinction there is none in the grace. Chapter 20: They who are about to enter baptism ought to pray with repeated prayers, fasts, and bending of the knee, and vigils all the ...

  • The Rise of Christianity
    The Rise of Christianity
    By Don Nardo

    In time , however , it became clear that most Gentiles were reluctant to take the steps necessary to make them acceptable Jews , and so Gentile Christians quickly came to outnumber Jewish ones . Only then did the Christian sect begin ...

  • The Rise of Christianity
    The Rise of Christianity
    By Ernest William Barnes

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

  • The Rise of Christianity
    The Rise of Christianity
    By W. H. C. Frend

    Only by reading this book can one appreciate how vast and disciplined is its scholarship, how thoughtful, how thoughtful its attention to both large historical currents and the little people and details that form the bed, and force the ...

  • The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History
    The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History
    By Rodney Stark

    In a fast-paced, highly readable book that addresses beliefs as well as historical facts, Rodney Stark brings a sociologist's perspective to bear on the puzzle behind the success of early Christianity.