Stephen O. Presley, a scholar of early Christianity, articulates this vision wonderfully in Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World like the Early Church. The book unpacks how early Christians ...

Regarding the questions posed at the beginning of the essay, the teachings and examples set by the Essene community had a ...

How Early Church Schisms Shaped Modern Christianity. Posted: May 9, 2025 | Last updated: May 9, 2025. In this documentary episode, the Kings and Generals series continues its exploration of ...

The key element in the early Norman church-building programme was the expression of power through architecture. Winchester Cathedral provides a good example of this.

Although later pushed to the side, women in early Christian communities often owned the 'house churches' where congregations gathered to worship. The status of women in early Christianity has been ...

But church historians have long known that certain Jewish followers of Christ, in the early decades after his death, regarded him as merely another prophet of Israel, and denounced Peter and Paul ...

An international team of archaeologists has revealed a "remarkable" early Christian church in Egypt, thought to be more than 1,600 years old, that contains a set of "surprising" human remains.

The rules of Disciplina arcani, Markwardt contends, would have meant that the embryonic Christian church would have concealed the existence of the Shroud. 'When, shortly after Jesus' death, his ...

Kimberly Flint-Hamilton, Images of Slavery in the Early Church, Journal of Hate Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2002/03), pp. 27-46 ...