Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity

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By David Frankfurter *90

Published Dec. 11, 2017

 David Frankfurter *90 offers a new model for analyzing the process of Christianization. He applies it in Christianizing Egypt (Princeton University Press), emphasizing how different social and artistic worlds created different forms of Christianity depending on their interests, traditions, and understanding of the religion offered them.

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