“How Was It Done?” — Asking Better Questions About the Birth of the Church

Part 1 of Pentecost Reflections from my reading of Rodney Stark's "The Rise of Christianity"

"In The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries, Rodney Stark distills the subtitle into three simple words: 'How was it done?' If historians ask what and when, and religious scholars ask why and who, Stark insists that 'how' is the question that best help…