Image caption, Christianity spread quickly through the provinces of the Roman Empire, shown here at its height in the early 2nd Century. Historians would rightly point to a single event in the 4th ...

The "remarkable" church, thought to be more than 1,600 years old, was found in an ancient city by a desert oasis.

WOMEN IN THE FIRST CENTURY OF CHRISTIANITY After the death of Jesus, women continued to play prominent roles in the early movement. Some scholars have even suggested that the majority of ...

In the first century of our era there were many sects ... second century of our era was an age of definition not just for Christianity but also for Judaism. In Christianity, of course, the second ...

This is the first scholarly treatment of nineteenth-century Christianity to discuss the subject in a global context. Part I analyses the responses of Catholic and Protestant Christianity to the ...