Timeline for Preventing the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
5 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2018 at 8:48 | comment | added | Shadow1024 | You shouldn't remove Paul... just he should remain, with all his talent and hard work on the opposing side. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 7:38 | comment | added | JoseHood | The interssting thing about the number of books in his name is not that they were all written by him, but that a number were not (somewhere around 6 weren’t). That suggests that his name was influential enough to copy. But, yes, that in itself is not an indicator of how important he was. It is his abandonment of the food laws that I think makes him an invaluable cog in Christianity’s evolution, especially in this question. Including the non-Jews exponentially expands Christianity’s sights in the empire. Jews were a insignificant minority (in raw numbers) most places outside Judea. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 7:24 | comment | added | Tim B II | This is actually a good answer (welcome to Worldbuilding, btw) however I'm not convinced that you can measure the influence of a pre-Constantine advocate of Christianity by the percentage of their work included in the Bible. Constantine was very much against the more Gnostic texts for instance, even if they had been influential to others. Also, Indian Christianity prior to European contact being more common was almost exclusively based on the Book of Thomas, which doesn't even get a look-in with Constantine, probably because it wasn't well known in Europe, if at all. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 7:15 | review | First posts | |||
| Aug 13, 2018 at 7:25 | |||||
| Aug 13, 2018 at 7:15 | history | answered | JoseHood | CC BY-SA 4.0 |