From Jewish messianic hopes to Roman imperial power, the first five hundred years of Christianity were shaped by history as much as by faith. What began as a diverse set of movements rooted in the Jewish world of the eastern Mediterranean spread across the Roman Empire, taking on new languages, ideas, and social forms as it moved from city to city.
This course explores how a world full of Christianities gradually became one official, state-sponsored church. Along the way, we will encounter theologians and emperors, saints and heretics, angels and demons, and ordinary believers whose debates, conflicts, and compromises transformed Christianity into an enduring force in the politics and piety of the late Roman world.
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