{"id":19250,"date":"2022-10-28T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T13:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=218190"},"modified":"2022-10-28T15:29:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T13:29:09","slug":"christianity-a-success-story-from-the-start","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/christianity-a-success-story-from-the-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Christianity: a success story from the start?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Emily Briffett\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 28 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Christianity has been one of the dominant forces in European history, but according to historian Peter Heather, its rise to prominence wasn\u2019t inevitable. In conversation with Emily Briffett, Peter confronts the idea of Christianity being a monolithic and consistently successful religion, and charts the changes it underwent between the late Roman and high medieval periods that allowed it to flourish.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-218190-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/10\/Christianitypeterheather-276d995.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/10\/Christianitypeterheather-276d995.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/10\/Christianitypeterheather-276d995.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Peter Heather is the author of <em>Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion<\/em> (Allen Lane, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/christendom-the-triumph-of-a-religion\/9780241215913&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Christendom-Triumph-Religion-Peter-Heather\/dp\/0241215919\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/christendom\/peter-heather\/\/9780241215913?awaid=3787&amp;utm_source=redbrain&amp;utm_medium=shopping&amp;utm_campaign=css&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8aXN_vf4-gIVDuvtCh0VDQkpEAQYAyABEgJRWPD_BwE&amp;awc=3787_1666616985_69edc6e30595dd4611879bb788d13a22&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emily Briffett Published: Friday, 28 October 2022 at 12:00 am Christianity has been one of the dominant forces in European history, but according to historian Peter Heather, its rise to prominence wasn\u2019t inevitable. 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