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The Persecution of the Jews in the Roman Empire (300-428). University of Kansas Publications, 1952. Humanistic Studies, No. 30; Claudia Setzer. Jewish Responses to Early Christians: History and Polemics, 30-150 C.E. Fortress. Minneapolis. 1994 254pp. Steve Walton. "The State They Were In" in Peter Oakes (ed.), Rome in the Bible and the Early ...
These early persecutions were certainly violent, but they were sporadic, brief and limited in extent. [21] They were of limited threat to Christianity as a whole. [22] The very capriciousness of official action, however, made the threat of state coercion loom large in the Christian imagination. [23] In the 3rd century, the pattern changed.
These ten persecutions Augustine compared with the 10 Plagues of Egypt in the Book of Exodus. [note 1] [65] Augustine did not see these early persecutions in the same light as that of fourth century heretics. In Augustine's view, when the purpose of persecution is to "lovingly correct and instruct", then it becomes discipline and is just.
[130] [131] The same encyclopedia of Roman Catholicism notes that the preference of the Early Church was total immersion in a stream or the sea or, if these were not available, in a fountain or bath-sized tank, [132] and Eerdman's Handbook to the History of Christianity says that baptism was normally by immersion, without specifying whether ...
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Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, mainline Protestantism: A complex system of thought that teaches that the material world is evil and that salvation can be achieved through knowledge (gnosis). [6] Marcionism: Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, mainline Protestantism
Novatianism or Novationism [1] was an early Christian sect devoted to the theologian Novatian (c. 200–258) that held a strict view that refused readmission to communion of lapsi (those baptized Christians who had denied their faith or performed the formalities of a ritual sacrifice to the pagan gods under the pressures of the persecution sanctioned by Emperor Decius in AD 250).
Interpretation of the baptismal practices of the early church is important to groups such as Baptists, Anabaptists, and the Churches of Christ who believe that infant baptism was a development that occurred during the late second to early third centuries. The early Christian writings mentioned above, which date from the second and third century ...