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When Our World Became Christian: 312 - 394
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When Our World Became Christian: 312 - 394 Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Veyne, Paul

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  • Title When Our World Became Christian: 312 - 394
  • Author Veyne, Paul
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press
  • Date 2010-03
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0745644988.G
  • ISBN 9780745644981 / 0745644988
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.9 in (21.08 x 14.22 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Church history - 4th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010280381
  • Dewey Decimal Code 270.2

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From the rear cover

This short book by one of France's leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western world? In his erudite and inimitable way, Paul Veyne suggests three possible explanations.

Was it because a Roman emperor, Constantine, who was master of the Western world at the time, became a sincere convert to Christianity and set out to Christianize the whole world in order to save it?

Or was it because, as a great emperor, Constantine needed a great religion, and in comparison to the pagan gods, Christianity, despite being a minority sect, was an avant-garde religion unlike anything seen before?

Or was it because Constantine limited himself to helping the Christians set up their Church, a network of bishoprics that covered the vast Roman Empire, and that gradually and with little overt resistance the pagan masses embraced Christianity as their own religion?
In the course of deciding between these explanations Paul Veyne sheds fresh light on one of the most profound transformations that shaped the modern world - the Christianization of the West. A bestseller in France, this book will appeal to a wide readership interested in history, religion and the rise of the modern world.

About the author

Paul Veyne, Collge de France