Christianity in the Later Roman Empire is an essential sourcebook of primary material for teachers and students and provides accessible and insightful commentary on the Church in the later Roman empire. Offering a critically framed selection of Late Roman Christian texts, this volume offers a current as well as comprehensive overview of the issues, authors, and problems of Christianization from the third to seventh centuries. David M. Gwynn has helpfully distilled much recent scholarship into a lively narrative of this transitional era, presenting traditional texts and authors in an accessible framework as well as presenting a broad bibliography for further reading.