The Rise of Christianity In his book “The Rise of Christianity,” Rodney Stark (1997) “introduces historians and biblical scholars to real social science, including formal rational choice theory, theories of the firm, the role of social networks and in interpersonal attachments in conversion, dynamic population models, social epidemiology and models of religious economies.” As a sociologist, he considered it relevant that authors establish an agreeable conclusion on Christianity’s growth from year 40 to 350. He concludes that the average growth was 40% per decade with an estimated average population of sixty million through research. My purpose in generating these numbers was not to discover ‘facts,’ but to impose needed discipline on the subject. By restoring to simple arithmetic, I
