What is the account that we get from Acts about the early history of the Christian church? The Book of Acts records or reports that there was a special event that took place at Pentecost, which would ...

Archaeologists working in the ruins of an ancient Armenian capital have uncovered a 4th-century Christian church that ranks ...

The earliest known evidence of Christianity north of Italy was recently unveiled by archaeologists, who call the discovery one of the "most important testimonies of early Christianity." The artifact, ...

Christianity is, if nothing else, one of the most successful cultural phenomenons in all of human history, and still powerfully shapes the world. But in many ways, this is happening reactively in much ...

In the last chapter of his book Promise and Poison: The Story of Emerging Christianity, John Van Hagen writes: My purpose in writing this book is to present the efforts of emerging Christianity to ...

Bonz is managing editor of Harvard Theological Review. She received a doctorate from Harvard Divinity School, with a dissertation on Luke-Acts as a literary challenge to the propaganda of imperial ...

Caritas (Charity), 1559, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Found in the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.Heritage Images/Getty Images Because of its long history, Christianity has ...

The Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, edited by Everett Ferguson (Garland, 1995), covers the bases (and often more) on all the items in this issue. One general work of special value is Stuart G.

Because most of history relies heavily on literary records written by men, discovering reliable historical data about Christian women can be challenging. This search is further complicated by the fact ...