Review: Christian Caryl on Elaine Pagels and Paula Fredriksen

The Greatest Show on Earth: How early Christianity conquered the world

We’ve all gotten rather used to Christianity by now, I suspect—even those of us who count ourselves as rigorously secular. Christian sensibilities inform the secular calendar, language, sense of history, notions of charity and social obligation, philosophical horizons. What’s more, even as non-religious Europeans and Americans are turning their backs on…