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“The great appeal of Ehrman’s approach to Christian history has always been his steadfast humanizing impulse…Ehrman always thinks hard about history’s winners and losers without valorizing the losers or demonizing the winners…[Ehrman is] a humane, thoughtful and intelligent historian.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“[Ehrman’s] book offers both a wealth of historical information and, to make sense of it all, a few plausible theories—including his own. He doesn’t tell us what to think. He gives us a lot to think about.”
— Newsday
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“Accessible and intriguing.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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“Well worth reading for those wishing to dispel myths around the early Christian churches.”
— Publishers Weekly
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How did a small, provincial Jewish sect called Christianity convert the mighty pagan Roman Empire? Bart Ehrman answers this baffling question with the same wit, passion, and rigorous scholarship that have made him one of the most popular religion writers in the world today. The Triumph of Christianity is a marvelous book.” — Reza Aslan, New York Times bestselling author of Zealot
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Drawing on a wealth of ancient sources and contemporary historical research, Bart Ehrman weaves complex questions into a vivid, nuanced, and enormously readable narrative.” — Elaine Pagels, National Book Award-winning author of The Gnostic Gospels
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Like a good college lecture class, [Ehrman’s] book offers both a wealth of historical information and, to make sense of it all, a few plausible theories — including his own. He doesn’t tell us what to think. He gives us a lot to think about.” — Newsday
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The value of Ehrman’s book, as is so often the case with his writings, is in his ability to synthesize complex material and distill it into highly readable prose.” — Booklist
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Well worth reading for those wishing to dispel myths around the early Christian churches.” — Publishers Weekly
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One of Christian history’s greatest puzzles after the age of the apostles is how a tiny band of mostly-illiterate outsiders converted the proud and massive Roman Empire in just three centuries — a historical blink of an eye. In The Triumph of Christianity, Ehrman brings impressive research, intellectual rigor, and an instinct for storytelling to this extraordinary dynamic.” — David Van Biema, former religion writer at Time and author of the forthcoming Speaking to God
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Accessible and intriguing.” — Kirkus Reviews
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Bart Ehrman is the leading expert on early Christian texts and here he takes the story on into the fourth century in a vivid and readable narrative that explores why Christianity “triumphed” as a world religion. The work is particularly valuable for its critical survey of the work of other scholars in the field.” — Charles Freeman, author of A New History of Early Christianity
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