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...

The Christian faith imposed fewer conditions on would-be recipients than did other cults, but the conditions it required were more life changing.39 Christianity introduced the concept of humanity reconstituted in “the image of God” as manifested in Jesus Christ. This was accomplished by conversion rather than by external observances, and the concept of conversion was utterly new in the Roman understanding of religion.40 Christianity called people to leave old loyalties behind and turn to something

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