Description Christianity began with the conviction that the old order was finished.
The mysterious, elusive and charismatic figure of Jesus proclaimed that a new era, the Kingdom of God, was dawning.
Yet despite its success, and the conversion of the empire which had executed its founder, the religion he inspired was soon domesticated, its counter-cultural radicalism tamed, as the Church attempted to control both its doctrines and its followers.
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I. B. Tauris & Company Radical prophet: the mystics, subversives and visionaries who foretold the end of the world/christopher rowland
