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Asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, the author turns to the development of Christian discourse over the first to sixth centuries AD, investigating its essential characteristics, its effects on existing forms of communication, and its eventual preeminence.

Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 02/12/1994
      ISBN13: 9780520089235, 978-0520089235
      ISBN10: 0520089235
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      Book Synopsis
      Asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, the author turns to the development of Christian discourse over the first to sixth centuries AD, investigating its essential characteristics, its effects on existing forms of communication, and its eventual preeminence.

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