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The intended collapse of Roman civilization continues to be lamented more than 1,500 years later - and intertwined with this notion is the notion a fledgling religion, Christianity, proceeded to go from a persecuted fringe motion to an irresistible push that toppled the empire. The intolerant zeal of Christians, had written Edward Gibbon, swept Rome's old gods away, and with them the constructions that sustained Roman society. Not, argues Douglas Boin. Such tales are simply just untrue to record, and ignore the most important fact of all: Life in Rome never emerged to a dramatic stop. Instead, as Boin shows, a small minority movement rose to transform world - politically, religiously, and culturally - but it was a steady process, one which happened in fits and starts off over centuries. Pulling upon a decade of recent studies in history and archaeology, and on his own research, Boin opens up a wholly new home window onto a period we thought we knew. His work is the first ever to summarize how Christians navigated the complicated world of interpersonal identity in terms of moving and developing. Many Christians lived in a energetic middle earth. Their peaceful success, around the clamor of martyrdom, was a powerful agent for change. With this insightful method of the storyline of Christians in the Roman world, Douglas Boin rewrites, and rediscovers, the amazing early record of a world faith.
