TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kreider,Alan
TI  - The patient ferment of the early church: the improbable rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire 
SN  - 9780801048494 (pbk.)
U1  - 270.1 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Grand Rapids, MI
PB  - Baker Academic
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and index; Growth and patience -- The improbable growth of the church -- The good of patience -- Push and pull -- Ferment -- Christians as agents of growth -- Communities as cultures of patience -- Forming the habitus -- Catechesis and baptism -- Worship -- "Wise doves" in the Didascalia apostolorum -- The transformation of patience -- The impatience of Constantine -- Augustine and the just impatience
ER  -