Pagans and Christians
by Robin Lane Fox
It is an absolutely panoramic tour de raison of how the Romans believed and thought, and the revolution and convulsion that was underlying the religious life of the time
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“We tend not to think of Christianity as being an expression of Roman civilisation but in so many ways it is, even though it radically transformed the empire. Robin Lane Fox’s book is the best modern account that I can think of which will give people the sense of how this remarkable revolution took place.” Read more...
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