TY - BOOK ID - 69540795 TI - The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries PY - 2005 SN - 9789004147171 9789047427476 PB - Leiden;Boston BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Christian sociology KW - Church history KW - History KW - Apostolic Church KW - Christianity KW - Church, Apostolic KW - Early Christianity KW - Early church KW - Primitive and early church KW - Primitive Christianity KW - Fathers of the church KW - Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:69540795 AB - 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. ER -