Aimed at the undergraduate academic and interested lay person, this is a classic history of the formative period of the Church. It includes an account of Rome and 1st-century Judaism, the Gnostics …
In 1902 Adolf Harnack published his momental book, translated into English in 1904 as the expansion of Chrsitianity in the first three centureis. Apart, however, from G.B. de Rossi's annual bulleti…