[PDF.71bh] The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire

The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire

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 | #39686 in Books |  Kreider Alan |  2016-03-29 |  2016-03-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.84 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Profoundly challenging; I'm going back to this over and over|By D. Hesselbarth|The remarkable growth of the early church has puzzled and challenged scholars. How did a tiny sect that attracted mainly the poor and unimportant and faced waves of persecution grow? How did they sustain their vigor and their distinctiveness such that well into the third century they were still well|From the Back Cover|"A timely history for the church in our secular age"||"Alan Kreider has done it again. Here he utilizes his immense grasp of early Christian sources, texts, and scholarship to illuminate for us the virtue of Christian patience and its

How and why did the early church grow in the first four hundred years despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional persecution? In this unique historical study, veteran scholar Alan Kreider delivers the fruit of a lifetime of study as he tells the amazing story of the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Challenging traditional understandings, Kreider contends the church grew because the virtue of patience was of central importance in the life and witness of ...

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