Description
Between 200 and 300 CE the number of Christians in the Roman Empire increased dramatically. These new converts gradually became assimilated into the cultures around them. Christianity became less of a movement and more of a church as it institutionalized and formalized its worship, scriptures, belief system and authority structure. The third century also saw the continued Hellenization of Christianity, as it moved further away from its Jewish roots and reinterpreted itself in terms of Greek thought.
