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The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire is unavailable, but you can change that!

During the three centuries before the conversion of the emperor Constantine, the Christian church grew in the Roman Empire. It grew despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional persecution. What enabled Christianity to be so successful that, by the fifth century, it was the established religion of the empire? In this unique historical study, Alan Kreider delivers the fruit of a lifetime of...

preparation for events that would test their toughness to the breaking point.61 And a final clue: the worship of the Christian community, repeated week by week, shaped the worshipers’ habitus by giving them kinesthetic as well as verbal habits. The Passion provides very little information about this, but it does mention two rites that were formative. The first of these we glimpse in the prisoners’ last meal, which for the prisoners became a worship service at table, which for North African Christians
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