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Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement from the…

— Rodney Stark

Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity…

— Camille Paglia

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians…

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

“The most important fact to know about the Christian Church in the two hundred years after Jesus' death is that only at the end…

— Norman F. Cantor

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

— Peter Jennings

“The disasters of the late Middle Ages tore Christianity from its roots—cultural, geographical, and linguistic. This “uprooting” created the Christianity that we commonly think…

— Philip Jenkins

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples…

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted…

— John Stuart Mill

What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the…

— Albert Schweitzer

Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it…

— Colin Wilson

“Christianity was birthed in Galilee as a relationship. It spread to Greece and became a philosophy. It spread to Rome and became an empire.…

— Chuck Miller