The early days of Christianity were quite complex. There were numerous beliefs, interpretations, and schisms. Most of them ...

Christian faith proclaims that Jesus was God’s divine son. But church historians have long known that certain Jewish followers of Christ, in the early decades after his death, regarded him as ...

Early Christians The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire, but its principles were sometimes misunderstood and membership of the sect could be dangerous.

But these sects that rivaled Christianity did not martyr Christian missionaries; to that extent at least they were harmless foes. ONE RARE, UNANALTTICAL, AND MERRY DAY One rare, unanalytical, and ...

Another sect, led by a wealthy individual named Marcion (ca A.D. 85–160), son of the bishop of Sinope (today’s Sinop in Turkey), believed that Christianity should be uncoupled from Jewish ...

Archeologists have “digitally unrolled” a 1,800-year-old silver amulet to decipher an inscription that’s being hailed as the oldest known evidence of Christianity in Europe.