National Review, December 18th, 1987
Pagans and Christians
by Robin Lane Fox (Knopf, 799 pp., $35)
AGES OF great transition, whether they represent the brith or the death of something dear to posterity, hold out an irresistible appeal to the historical imagination. Christianity's ascent from a small but enterprising offshoot of Judaism to a world religion is one of the great changes--some would say the single greatest change-- in the history of the world. The age in which it arose is one to which historians have always turned avidly, and to which Robin Lane Fox now makes this signal contribution.
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