{"product_id":"the-triumph-of-christianity-how-a-forbidden-religion-swept-the-world-9781501136719","title":"The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe \"marvelous\" (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eZealot\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four centuries? In \u003ci\u003eThe Triumph of Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e, early Christian historian Bart D. Ehrman weaves the rigorously-researched answer to this question \"into a vivid, nuanced, and enormously readable narrative\" (Elaine Pagels, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gnostic Gospels\u003c\/i\u003e), showing how a handful of charismatic characters used a brilliant social strategy and an irresistible message to win over hearts and minds one at a time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis \"humane, thoughtful and intelligent\" book (\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) upends the way we think about the single most important cultural transformation our world has ever seen--one that revolutionized art, music, literature, philosophy, ethics, economics, and law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity and a distinguished professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author of six \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers, he has written or edited more than thirty books, including \u003ci\u003eMisquoting Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e How Jesus Became God\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Triumph of Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Heaven and Hell\u003c\/i\u003e. Ehrman has also created nine popular audio and video courses for The Great Courses. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages, with over two million copies and courses sold.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50642018763026,"sku":"9781501136719","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1298bc57-dd89-451f-9a8c-30f2177f753c.jpg?v=1733051920","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-triumph-of-christianity-how-a-forbidden-religion-swept-the-world-9781501136719","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}