TY - BOOK AU - Harris,William V. TI - The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries: Essays in Explanation T2 - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 SN - 9789047427476 AV - BR166 U1 - 270.1 23 PY - 2005/// CY - Leiden; , Boston PB - BRILL KW - Christian sociology KW - History KW - Early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Church history KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries: Essays in Explanation attempts to show how contemporary historical scholarship, or rather a selection of its exponents, views the perennial question why a new religion, indeed a new kind of religion, succeeded in subverting the other religions of the Roman Empire in the first three centuries and in the generations immediately following the 'conversion' of the usurper Constantine in 312 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047427476 ER -