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  • Divine Honours for the Caesars

    The First Christians' Responses

    by Bruce W. Winter ...
    Though the first century a.d. saw the striking rise and expansion of Christianity throughout the vast Roman Empire, ancient historians have shown that an even stronger imperial cult spread far more rapidly at the same time. How did the early Jesus-followers cope with the all-pervasive culture of emperor worship?This authoritative study by Bruce Winter explores the varied responses of first-century ... Read more

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  • Divine Honours for the Caesars

    The First Christians' Responses

    by Bruce W. Winter ...
    Though the first century a.d. saw the striking rise and expansion of Christianity throughout the vast Roman Empire, ancient historians have shown that an even stronger imperial cult spread far more rapidly at the same time. How did the early Jesus-followers cope with the all-pervasive culture of emperor worship?This authoritative study by Bruce Winter explores the varied responses of first-century ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Darkening Age

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  • Antiquity

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    by Norman F. Cantor ...
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  • A New History of Early Christianity

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book II

    The Triumph of Christianity

    by T.M. Lindsay, H.M. Gwatkin, C.H. Turner ...
    THE old or official religions of Greece and of Rome had lost most of their power long before Constantine first declared that Christianity was henceforth to be recognized as a religio licita and then proceeded to bestow the Imperial favor on the faith which his predecessors had persecuted. Hellenism had destroyed their influence over the cultivated classes, and other religions, coming from the East ... Read more

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    The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome

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    "[A] panoramic view of early Christianity as it developed against the backdrop of the Roman Empire of the fourth century" ( Publishers Weekly).The story of Jesus is well known, as is the story of Christian persecutions during the Roman Empire. The history of fervent debate, civil strife, and bloody riots within the Christian community as it was coming into being, however, is a side of ancient ... Read more

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    An Abbreviated History from Androclus to Constantine Xi

    by Hans Willer Laale ...
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  • The Secret Society of Moses

    The Mosaic Bloodline and a Conspiracy Spanning Three Millennia

    by Flavio Barbiero ...
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    No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography argues that Constantine's conversion is but one feature of a unique administrative style that enabled him to take control of an empire beset by internal ... Read more

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    A comprehensive study – recently updated for the eBook edition – which introduces the reader to the vigour and variety of the fourth century AD.After being beset by invasion, civil war and internal difficulties for a century, the Roman Empire that Diocletian inherited in AD 284 desperately needed the organizational drive he brought to the task of putting its administration and defences on a newly ... Read more

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