Why Christianity Happened: A Sociohistorical Account of Christian Origins (26-50 CE)

by James G. Crossley

Looking beyond theological narratives and offering a sociological, economic, and historical examination of the spread of earliest Christianity, James Crossley presents a thoroughly secular and causal explanation for why the once law-observant movement within Judaism became the beginnings of a new religion. First analyzing the historiography of the New Testament and stressing the problematic omission of a social scientific account, Crossley applies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664230946
• ISBN13: 9780664230944
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"