Back to the Question of How Many People Converted

I want to return to the question of how quickly the Christian church grew in the first four centuries. This will be part of chapter 6 of my book on the Triumph of Christianity. If you want a fuller background to what I say in this post and the one to follow, see my earlier musings on May 16 of this year, at http://ehrmanblog.org/how-many-christians-were-there/

In two posts I’m going to lay out what I think we can say both about how many people became Christian and at approximately what rate....