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Christianizing the Roman Empire : (A.D. 100-400) / Ramsay MacMullen

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1984]Copyright date: ©1984Description: viii, 183 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300032161
  • 9780300032161
  • 0300036426
  • 9780300036428
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 270.1 20 M478C
LOC classification:
  • BR195.E9 M33 1984
Contents:
Problems of approach -- What pagans believed -- Christianity as presented -- Points of contact, modes of persuasion, before 312 -- Constantine as friend of the church -- Nonreligious factors in conversion -- Evangelical campaigns and publicity, after 312 -- Conversion of intellectuals -- How complete was conversion? -- Conversion by coercion -- Summary
Summary: How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In his newest book, an eminent historian of ancient Rome examines this question from a secular rather than an ecclesiastical viewpoint. MacMullen's provocative conclusion is that mass conversions to Christianity were based more on the appeal of miracle or the opportunity for worldly advantages than simply on a "rising tide of Christian piety." - Back cover
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Books Books Harvest Mission College General Stacks Non-fiction 270.1 M478C (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 006591

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-179) and index

Problems of approach -- What pagans believed -- Christianity as presented -- Points of contact, modes of persuasion, before 312 -- Constantine as friend of the church -- Nonreligious factors in conversion -- Evangelical campaigns and publicity, after 312 -- Conversion of intellectuals -- How complete was conversion? -- Conversion by coercion -- Summary

How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In his newest book, an eminent historian of ancient Rome examines this question from a secular rather than an ecclesiastical viewpoint. MacMullen's provocative conclusion is that mass conversions to Christianity were based more on the appeal of miracle or the opportunity for worldly advantages than simply on a "rising tide of Christian piety." - Back cover

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