The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
<b>The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of <i>Zealot</i>), <i>New York Times</i> bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.</b><br /><br />How did 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? In <i>The Triumph of Christianity</i>, early Christian historian Bart D. Ehrman weaves the rigorously-researched answer to this question “into a vivid, nuanced, and enormously readable narrative” (Elaine Pagels, National Book Award-winning author of <i>The Gnostic Gospels</i>), showing how a handful of charismatic characters used a brilliant social strategy and an irresistible message to win over hearts and minds one at a time.<br /> <br />This “humane, thoughtful and intelligent” book (<i>The </i><i>New York Times Book Review</i>) 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.