“The End of Apologetics: Christian Witness in a Postmodern Context” by Myron B. Penner

[Dale (evolutionary providentialist)]

Along the same lines mentioned a while back…

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@Dale

Read the part about the plague.

Google Books

The Rise of Christianity

Last year when the pandemic was so severe in Italy, I remember reading of a priest who sat with one victim in a hospital while the person was dying, so he wouldn’t die alone. The priest subsequently died of COVID too.

@Dale

There’s a Wikipedia article on the book:

en.m.wikipedia.org

The Rise of Christianity

The Rise of Christianity (subtitled either A Sociologist Reconsiders History or How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries, depending on the edition), is a book by the sociologist Rodney Stark, which examines the rise of Christianity, from a small movement in Galilee and Judea at the time of Jesus to the majority religion of the Roman Empire a few centuries later. Stark argues that contrary to popular belief, Christianity …