The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries: Essays in ExplanationWilliam Vernon Harris BRILL, 2005 - 176 sider "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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ModelsofChristianExpansion | 1 |
Christian Expansion and Christian Ideology | 15 |
the Uses of the Appeal to Woman | 43 |
The Significance of Leadership and Organisation in | 53 |
Barbarians and the EmpireWide Spread of Christianity Stamenka E Antonova | 69 |
Outlawing Magic or Outlawing Religion? Libanius and | 87 |
Pagans Polytheists and the Pendulum | 125 |
the School | 145 |
ScholarlyWorksReferredTo | 161 |
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