The supposed collapse of Roman civilization is still lamented more than 1,500 years later-and intertwined with this idea is the notion that a fledgling religion

Background becomes foreground in Moyer Hubbard's creative introduction to the social and historical setting for the letters of the Apostle Paul to churches in A

of the Pope." --Book Jacket.

The rise of Christianity during the first four centuries of the common era was the pivotal development in Western history and profoundly influenced the later di