Historiography of the Christianization of the Roman Empire
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historiography-of-the-christianization-of-the-roman-empire-184-6003045
title:
Historiography of the Christianization of the Roman Empire
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The growth of Christianity from its obscure origin c. 40 AD, with fewer than 1,000 followers, to being the majority religion of the entire Roman Empire by AD 400, has been examined through a wide variety of historiographical approaches. Until the last decades of the 20th century, the primary theory was provided by Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in 1776. Gibbon theorized that paganism declined from the second century BC and was finally eliminat
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Christianization_of_the_Roman_Empire
date created:
2006-12-01T22:23:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T06:04:43Z
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