The Emergence of Christianity

ISBN: 9780313327995

出版社: Greenwood Pub Group

出版年: 2007-10

页数: 240

定价: $ 50.85

装帧: HRD

内容简介

The ancient Romans believed that only proper polytheistic worship could maintain the "pax Romana," or "Roman Peace." In the first century A.D., a splinter sect of Judaism began to crack this wall, bringing upheaval, persecution, and conversion into the lives of Romans, Jews, and pagans. This exciting volume explores the emergence of Christianity in Rome during the first four centuries of the Roman Empire, from the first followers of Jesus, to conflicts between Christians and Jewish kings under Roman occupation, to the persecution of Christian followers, Diocletian's reforms, and Constantine's eventual conversion to monotheism, which cemented Christianity's status as the official religion of Rome.