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Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Christianity spread from the Levant, across the Roman Empire, and beyond.
The early Christian church in the first three centuries after Jesus's resurrection brought about the most amazing transformation of diverse social and religious cultures ever achieved by peaceful means in the history of the world.
The Early Christian Church. From the time of Nero (64 A.D.) until the conversion of Emperor Constantine and the Edict of Milan (313 A.D.), whereby Christianity was made legal, the Christian faith was officially regarded as a religio prava, an evil or depraved religion. Christianity's Jewish Roots.
History of early Christianity, the development of the early Christian church from its roots in the Jewish community of Roman Palestine to the conversion of Constantine I and the convocation of the First Council of Nicaea.
The early church was missional, flexible, often underground, and prioritized above all maintaining a historical connection with Jesus. [pages 6–7] By the end of the 1st century, all of Christ’s apostles had died—most were martyred.
Emerging from a small sect of Judaism in the 1st century CE, early Christianity absorbed many of the shared religious, cultural, and intellectual traditions of the Greco-Roman world. In traditional...
Introduction. The ancient church or early church period—stretching from the beginning of the New Testament church to the beginning of the Middle Ages (c. AD 600)—was characterized bloody persecution, the spread of the gospel throughout the Roman Empire and beyond, and the theological codification of the doctrines of the Trinity and of the ...
The history of the Axum Empire and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Magi, Wise Men, or Kings? It’s Complicated.
This bibliography covers ancient churches from the earliest period up to 313 CE ––the so-called ante pacem era.
The relationship of the earliest Christian churches to Judaism turned principally on two questions: (1) the messianic role of Jesus of Nazareth and (2) the permanent validity of the Mosaic Law for all.