A truly underground Christianity would have remained insignificant.... The Weakness of Paganism Henry Chadwick assured his readers that "Paganism was far from being moribund when Constantine was ...

Did hostility towards outsiders and deviant insiders advance Christianity more than altruism? How was manuscript tradition shaped by occasional large-scale destruction of copies? The project ...

This shows up with particular frequency in the form of allergic reactions to arguments that attribute the rise of Christianity to superior theology. For some historians, this allergy reflects ...