The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

How 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 The Triumph of Christianity, early Christian historian Bart D. Ehrman weaves the rigorously-researched answer to this question into an eye-opening, compulsively readable narrative, 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.