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$1.99 | The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World (eBook) by Bart D. Ehrman

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AuthorBart D. Ehrman
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Publication dateFebruary 13, 2018
Print length353 pages
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Miquoting Jesus comes the "marvelous" (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot) story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.

How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four centuries? In The Triumph of Christianity, early Christian historian Bart D. Ehrman weaves the rigorously-researched answer to this question "into a vivid, nuanced, and enormously readable narrative" (Elaine Pagels, National Book Award–winning author of The Gnostic Gospels), showing how a handful of charismatic characters used a brilliant social strategy and an irresistible message to win over hearts and minds one at a time.

This "humane, thoughtful and intelligent" book (The New York Times Book Review) upends the way we think about the single most important cultural transformation our world has ever seen—one that revolutionized art, music, literature, philosophy, ethics, economics, and law.

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AuthorBart D. Ehrman
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Publication dateFebruary 13, 2018
Print length353 pages
Customer Reviews4.4⭐ / 1,219 ratings
Great on Kindle

From the New York Times bestselling author of Miquoting Jesus comes the "marvelous" (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot) story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.

How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four centuries? In The Triumph of Christianity, early Christian historian Bart D. Ehrman weaves the rigorously-researched answer to this question "into a vivid, nuanced, and enormously readable narrative" (Elaine Pagels, National Book Award–winning author of The Gnostic Gospels), showing how a handful of charismatic characters used a brilliant social strategy and an irresistible message to win over hearts and minds one at a time.

This "humane, thoughtful and intelligent" book (The New York Times Book Review) upends the way we think about the single most important cultural transformation our world has ever seen—one that revolutionized art, music, literature, philosophy, ethics, economics, and law.

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Aug 4, 2026 8:12 PM
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SlickSofa719Aug 5, 2026 3:01 AM
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Christianity's success was not a "brilliant social strategy," but the Holy Spirit's work to bring about God's will given to us in the Bible that He would save His People.
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Aug 5, 2026 3:18 AM
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4SKZ8Aug 5, 2026 3:18 AM
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I like listening to his Misquoting Jesus podcast. He's seems goofy
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Aug 5, 2026 4:31 PM
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RepFree83Aug 5, 2026 4:31 PM
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Quote from SlickSofa719 :
Christianity's success was not a "brilliant social strategy," but the Holy Spirit's work to bring about God's will given to us in the Bible that He would save His People.
Blessed be the fruit
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Aug 6, 2026 7:07 PM
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tracfancierAug 6, 2026 7:07 PM
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Who makes a religion out of a Fruit Crime?
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Aug 6, 2026 7:09 PM
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tracfancierAug 6, 2026 7:09 PM
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Christians all shirk their Jesus enacted burden of truth.
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Aug 6, 2026 7:10 PM
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tracfancierAug 6, 2026 7:10 PM
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The one and only justification any theist has for their beliefs is "I want that bit to be true, but not that bit" so as to build their own version of another people's version of someone else's imaginary friend.
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Aug 8, 2026 10:20 AM
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ilbarbaroAug 8, 2026 10:20 AM
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Quote from RepFree83 :
Blessed be the fruit
Bet is an atheist sadly.
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Aug 9, 2026 7:13 AM
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CBBlakerAug 9, 2026 7:13 AM
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BART is an atheist. Maybe he will cover that.
Bart has stated he is agnostic, not an atheist. I on the other hand am an atheist.
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Aug 10, 2026 12:36 PM
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Danbo3330Aug 10, 2026 12:36 PM
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I seriously thought it was a book on Noah Wyle until I read the title.
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psaturn7Aug 10, 2026 8:11 PM
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I think illiterate is not accurate description of the original apostles. Jewish culture is such the ability to read on their own is very important so that is why they are schooled in school and Bar Mitzvah is a confirmation they are able to read the text and they have grown up.
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Aug 10, 2026 10:25 PM
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PeregringoAug 10, 2026 10:25 PM
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"How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers..." 😂

Here's how the blurb should have started:

"Bart Ehrman and Simon & Schuster have teamed up to rewrite Early Christianity once again. From his conspiracies about how early Christians corrupted the text of the Bible, he now tells the truth about how they corrupted an empire..."
Aug 11, 2026 3:57 PM
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VioletClover4994Aug 11, 2026 3:57 PM
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Quote from psaturn7 :
I think illiterate is not accurate description of the original apostles. Jewish culture is such the ability to read on their own is very important so that is why they are schooled in school and Bar Mitzvah is a confirmation they are able to read the text and they have grown up.
Widespread Jewish literacy via rabbinical schools wouldn't have been a thing in the time of Jesus. I've noticed that Christians will often project later Jewish developments onto the Jews at the time of Jesus.

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