Customer Reviews for T&T Clark Christianity in Rome in the First Three Centuries

In this scholarly yet accessible account, Bernard Green provides an excellent analysis of early Christianity as it grew, expanded, and became influential in the imperial capital: Rome. Literary and historical evidence is presented alongside the best of modern scholarship in five chapters succinctly entitled "origins", "Community", "Persecution", "Catacombs", and "Constantine". Christians, their inner lives, practices, and social structure, are probed within the broader contexts and social frameworks in which they walked and lived.As a whole Christianity in Rome allows the reader to appreciate at a higher level the fascinating story of how divine assistance and human endeavor blended together during an epoch that proved formative for the Christian church and, thereby, for world history.