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 ...

Though he has long been considered an early Church father, Pope Francis named him the 27th doctor of the Church in 2022, more than 1,800 years after his death. A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

Young people raised in the Church, many of them once passionate believers, are now publicly questioning or walking away from ...

Women in the Early Church. Charles C. Ryrie. Christianity Today April 27, 1959 ... During this period women had an important part in the founding of the church—a phase of their activity which is ...

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 ...

CNA Staff, Oct 17, 2024 / 04:00 am. On Oct. 17, the Roman Catholic Church remembers the early Church Father, bishop, and martyr St. Ignatius of Antioch, whose writings attest to the sacramental ...

The early Christian church, dated to around the mid-fourth century, is one of the "exciting" discoveries revealed by excavations at the site, David Ratzan with New York University's ...

Anglo-Saxon Church. Early Christianity was a localised affair and reached people through their local lords and leaders. Communities worshipped in small stone buildings, and monasteries were ...

June 29th is the great Feast of Saints Peter and Paul—two towering pillars of the early Church, martyrs for Christ, and ...

The Church was central to community life throughout the Middle Ages, ... Two elaborate examples, dating from the late 15th or early 16th centuries, can be seen at Trull, in Somerset, ...

“I think we’re looking at something more organic from the times of the early church, where if people want to acclaim him as a saint, they will and then let the church catch up,” she said.