A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD - 37

by H. G. Wells in English Classic Stories

XXXVII THE TEACHING OF JESUS It was while Augustus Cæsar, the first of the Emperors, was reigning in Rome that Jesus who is the Christ of Christianity was born in Judea. In his name a religion was to arise ...Read Morewas destined to become the official religion of the entire Roman Empire. Now it is on the whole more convenient to keep history and theology apart. A large proportion of the Christian world believes that Jesus was an incarnation of that God of all the Earth whom the Jews first recognized. The historian, if he is to remain historian, can Read Less