The Patient Ferment of the Early Church
The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire
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Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100801048494
- ISBN-139780801048494
- Library of Congress Control Number2015043726
- OCLC Control Number913557666
- Better World Books9780801048494
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27705098M
Classifications
- LCCBR162.3 .K74 2016
- LCCBR162.3.K74 2016
Description
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 the early Christians. They wrote about patience, not evangelism, and reflected on prayer, catechesis, and worship, yet the church grew -- not by specific strategies but by patient ferment.
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