New York Times bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.
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 The Triumph of Christianity, early Christian historian Bart D. Ehrman weaves the rigorously-researched answer to this question shows 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.
This book 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.
"The great appeal of Ehrman's approach to Christian history has always been his steadfast humanizing impulse... Ehrman always thinks hard about history's winners and losers without valorizing the losers or demonizing the winners… Reading about how an entire culture's precepts and traditions can be overthrown without anyone being able to stop it may not be heartening at this particular historical m
