Who Were the First Christians?
Subtitle: Dismantling the Urban Thesis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780190620547
Subjects: Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Christians; Cities and towns
Description: Thomas Robinson argues that popular views of early Christian growth-one concentrated in urban environments-would nearly saturate every urban area of the entire Roman Empire with Christians, leaving no room for Jews or pagans.