Our world has never seen a more fundamental and significant cultural transformation than the subjugation of Western civilization by Christianity. The triumphant Christianization of the Roman Empire was the greatest historical victory for a once-forbidden religion whose adherents were persecuted and martyred. A new book by world-renowned Bible scholar and early Christian historian Bart Ehrman is a description of what happened when the church merged with imperial power. In his story, Ehrman avoids both victorious reports about the growth of influence and the strengthening of the power of the church, and those that suggest themselves after getting acquainted with the historical facts of accusations of Christians in barbarism and vandalism in relation to the destroyed and lost priceless cultural heritage of ancient pagan culture. He asks a question and tries to give an objective answer to it: how did a small handful of followers of Jesus of Nazareth manage to convert a huge and powerful empire to their faith?