The apostasy that wasn't : the extraordinary story of the unbreakable early church
(Book)

The theory goes like this: Just a few centuries after Christ's death, around the time the Roman Empire converted to Christianity, the true Faith suffered a catastrophic falling-away. The simple truths of the gospel became so obscured by worldliness and pagan idolatry--kicking off the Dark Ages of Catholicism--that Christianity required a complete reboot. This theory is popular... but it's also fiction. This theory is popular... but it's also fiction. This theory is popular... but it's also fiction. This therory is popular but it is also fiction. In The Apostasy that Wasn't, Rod Bennett follows up his bestseller Four Witnesses with an account of the historical events that led him out of his own belief in apostasy theory and into the Catholic Church. With the touch of a master storyteller, he narrates the drama of the early Church's fight to preserve Christian orthodoxy intact even as powerful forces try to smash it to pieces. Amid imperial intrigue, military menace, and bitter theological debate, a hero arises in the form of a homely little monk named Athanasius, who stands against the world to prove that there could never be a Great Apostasy--because Jesus promised his Church would never be broken.,Adapted from back cover.