Bart D Ehrman

Listen to "Bart D Ehrman Triumph Of Christianity" on Spreaker. “An accessible and intriguing... history of the growth of Christianity.” - Kirkus Reviews “A lucid and convincing account of the growth of Christianity in the Roman world.... [Ehrman’s] careful synthesis of existing scholarship creates an approachable study of the early church.... Well worth reading.” - Publishers Weekly “One of Christian history’s greatest puzzles after the age of the apostles is how a tiny band of mostly-illiterate outsiders converted the proud and massive Roman Empire in just 3 centuries – a historical blink of an eye. In THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY, Ehrman brings impressive research, intellectual rigor, and an instinct for storytelling to this extraordinary dynamic.” - David Van Biema, former religion writer at Time & author of the forthcoming Speaking to God New York Times bestselling author Bart D. Ehrman's newest book - THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY - combines deep knowledge and meticulous research in an eye-opening, immensely readable narrative that upends the way we think about the single most important cultural transformation our world has ever seen—one that revolutionized art, music, literature, philosophy, ethics, economics, and law. Ehrman - a leading authority on early Christianity - investigates the story of how Christianity grew from a religion of 20 or so peasants in rural Galilee to the dominant religion in the West in less than 400 years. Christianity didn’t have to become the dominant religion in the West. It easily could have remained a sect of Judaism fated to have the historical importance of the Sadducees or the Essenes. In The Triumph of Christianity, Bart Ehrman, a master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, shows how a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four centuries. The Triumph of Christianitycombines deep knowledge and meticulous research in an eye-opening, immensely readable narrative that upends the way we think about the single most important cultural transformation our world has ever seen—one that revolutionized art, music, literature, philosophy, ethics, economics, and law.