The Patient Ferment Of The Early Church by Tim Kreider
The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire
A study of how the early Christian movement expanded not through aggressive campaigns or eloquent apologetics, but through the slow, compelling witness of communities formed in patience. It highlights practices like the catechumenate, moral discipline, hospitality, nonviolence, and care for the poor as the engine of growth, showing how leaders taught patience as a central virtue that shaped a distinctive communal habitus attractive to outsiders. It also traces how imperial favor later shifted the focus toward activism and coercion, contrasting that turn with the earlier, patient ferment that had quietly transformed the Roman world.
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- 2016
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