Rethinking Early Christian Mission: Geography and Identity in the First Four Centuries

Beyond Paul's well-documented journeys lies a vast, largely unknown history of early Christian expansion. How did a marginal Jewish movement from first-century Galilee become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire by 400 CE? While the missionary travels of Paul and the Acts of the Apostles provide familiar narratives, the story of Christianity's remarkable spread across Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia—and the countless missionaries who carried the gospel into these territories—remains largely untold.