A New Arithmetic — Rethinking Triumph and Influence

Part 2 of Pentecost Reflections from my reading of Rodney Stark's "The Rise of Christianity"

"Whatever one does or does not believe about the divine, obviously God did not cause the world to become Christian, since that remains to be achieved. Rather, the New Testament recounts human efforts to spread the faith, [and] an essential factor in the religion's success was what Christians believed." — Rodney Stark¹

Before we delve further into Rodney S…