books.google.co.uk - The reader is taken from the very first generation of Christians in Rome, a tiny group of Jews who acknowledged Jesus as the Messiah, down to the point when Christianity had triumphed over savage persecution and was on the verge of becoming the religion of the Roman Empire. Rome was by far the biggest...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Christianity_in_Ancient_Rome.html?id=LojX4E6o1EgC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareChristianity in Ancient Rome