Cities of God The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome

Name: Cities of God The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome
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ISBN: 9780061349881

ISBN-10: 0061349887

ISBN-13: 9780061349881

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Authors: Rodney Stark

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Cities of God goes beyond an ordinary revision of history by an indepth analysis of quantitative data. Since early Christianity was primarily an urban movement, the thirtyone cities of the empire having populations of at least 30,000 as of the year 100 serve as the basis for testing hypotheses about the early church. Cities of God demonstrates how quantitative methods resolve many debates about early church history and can lead to the discovery of unanticipated relationships. Where we have traditionally thought Christianity was spread by mass conversions due to St. Paul's sermons and force of personality, we learn that it's spread was, in fact, gradual and logical. Whereas many recent…

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List price: $13.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



List of Maps and Illustrations



Missions and Methods



The Urban Empire



Christianization



Cybele and Isis: 'Oriental' Forerunners



Paul and the Mission to the Hellenized Jews



Gnosticism and Heresy



The Last Days of Paganism


Conclusion: Why Historians Ought to Count


Acknowledgments


Statistical Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index