When Jesus Became God

The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome

By Richard E. Rubenstein

Early christian history is fascinating from just an anthropological point of view. Why did people believe what they did? How did those beliefes change over time? What other sociological events shaped the developement of the religion? Etc.

This book begins around the year 300, which honestly is much earlier than I realized that Christianity had taken such a hold.