Review: "The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity"

Abstract

Oxford educated scholar, Richard Fletcher, has produced another outstanding volume: The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity.  Evangelicals have been accused of many things, but one censure that may well stick is their lack of historical perspective.  This failing can be alleviated by reading Fletcher’s outstanding volume on the history of the conversion of barbarian Europe to the Roman or Byzantine forms of Christianity.  It is packed full of insights that challenge many of the presuppositions of Evangelicals at several levels.  Second, it fills up with great detail the European gaps in what K. S. Latourette calls The Thousand Years of Uncertainty.