From Christ to Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the Church in Less than a Century (Biblia.com)

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How did the movement founded by Jesus transform more in the first seventy-five years after his death than it has in the two thousand years since? From Christ to Christianity offers an informative and understandable summary of the development of Christianity in the New Testament and post-Apostolic eras. James Edwards tells the story of how the Christian movement—which began as relatively...

literature, it remains the most creative era in the entire history of Christianity.5 The Christian movement, which at its birth was almost indistinguishable from Judaism, within seventy-five years assumed a set of identifiable characteristics that were distinct from Judaism and remained remarkably constant for the next two millennia. Martin Hengel describes Christianity as “a corner sect from rural Galilee that within two generations became a new religion that reached the distant parts of the Imperium

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