Triumph of Christianity How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

Name: Triumph of Christianity How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
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ISBN: 9781501136719

ISBN-10: 1501136712

ISBN-13: 9781501136719

Edition: 2019

Authors: Bart D. Ehrman

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The "marvelous" (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West. 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. 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…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/5/2019
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.37" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

New Testament scholar Bart D. Ehrman grew up in Lawrence, Kansas and graduated from Wheaton College in 1978. He earned his Masters of Divinity and PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and has taught at Rutgers University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor. He has published more than 20 scholarly and popular books, including three New York Times bestsellers, plus numerous articles and book reviews.