Originally Posted By: The_Real_Hawkeye
Derby, Edward Gibbon, in The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, goes into quite a bit of detail about the history of the Church within the Roman Empire. You might enjoy reading it. He starts talking about the history of Christianity within the Empire in Chapter Fifteen.
In addition, the historian Will Durant, goes into very great detail about the origin and subsequent organization, and many divergences of early Christianity in his two books,
Caesar and Christ, � 1948, and
The Age Of Faith, Simon & Schuster, � 1950.
Both are very interesting reads.
L.W.
