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The rise of christianity by rodney stark is an easy, yet thourogh investigation on the rise of christianity in the first few centuries. The author is both a sociologist and an apologist of christianity (a rare mixture) this book is a treasure chest of... Read More
Stark says martyrdom was a way to deal with the failure of prophesy when jesus did not return. Stark writes on other interesting facets of the period such as the relatively small number of christians who were actually fed to the lions in rome and the ... Read More
Excellent sociological/historical synopsis, as well as some real analysis. It is methodical and expansive in its research and supports each assertion with a bevy of credible sources. Stark is that he is enamored with the idea of sociology as a science... Read More
Stark does for early christianity what andrew greeley is doing for millenium catholicism.
Cons
This is not how christianity grew. if he's presenting a reasoned and researched view on early church development, say so up front.
His basis for rejecting luke's numbers is the out-dated estimate by j. This is disingenous at best, and intellectually dishonest at worst. If you don't mind that his logic is fallacious, the numbers in his poll studies are inaccurate.
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The most interesting part is the way the theories of social networks affect religious growth and how the christian response to ... Read More
Stark interconnects a series of factors that combine what we know about how new faiths arise and how the message and values of ... Read More
Many of them also could have talked directly with the over 500 people that jesus appeared to after his resurrection to verify t... Read More
I am skeptical of stark on this point
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But it’s good enough and i liked the low price
The proliferation of pagan mystery religions where religion was more like a commodity bought for a price was vastly different t... Read More
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I have been watching the teaching companys dvds on ancient greece and rome
Women in the grecoroman world werent treated very well to say the least
Christians had considerably higher fertility rates and lower mortality rates due to caring for each other
Christians had considerably higher fertility rates and lower mortality rates due to caring for each other
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This was contrary to popular belief of most people that believed christians were poor people during the rise of christianity
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This notion was widely accepted
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From the book it seems as if one of his purposes in writing the rise of christianity is to debunk this myth
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In chapter 2 we see that stark suggests in the book that “abraham j
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They did this to care for the sick and afflicted which was opposed to the pagans who left cities with epidemics
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Christian populations also grew faster because they did not believe in birth control abortion and killing off babies at a young age
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Since the killing off of infants was normally female newborns early christians had a higher percentage of women that could have children as opposed to the pagans
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Although there are some areas in the book i believe stark makes assumptions such as being conservative and guessing that there were a 1000 christians in the year 40
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