Tangible evidence about Christianity’s spread from Rome to Canterbury and from Ireland to the Court of Charlemagne....
Christianity
It was initially a Jewish message and so the followers of Jesus took his teachings to the...
The significance of Constantinople as the place of the imagined event of the death of Arius. Introduction...
Reading the gospels as history without the criteria we apply to the reading of all ancient history...
The Great Awakening swept the English-speaking world, as religious energy vibrated between the U.K. and the American...
Christianity had developed as a religious idea in Roman Palestine and slowly spread throughout the Empire. By...
After World War II, conservative Protestants rejected the separatist stance and began calling themselves evangelicals. Introduction In...
Little if any direct archeological evidence exists concerning Abraham. Introduction In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Abraham is a...
Christianity began in first century C.E. Jerusalem as a Jewish sect, but quickly spread throughout the Roman...
The problem is that rural America doesn’t even understand itself and will never listen to anyone outside...
Jewish Christians predominated in the movement of early Christianity. They bore the brunt of persecution from their...
Hildegard of Bingen was called the “Sibyl of the Rhine” because of her apocalyptic visions. Introduction Hildegard...
A rough genealogy of the way in which the central narrative of Buddhism ended up in a...
The spread of Christianity in the Early Middle Ages (from the fifth to tenth centuries) marked the...
Today’s fundamentalist Catholics find themselves embroiled in what they consider a war for the soul of their...
For American Christians — especially those privileged to hold political, economic, and social power — these are...
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Christianity has heard the term ‘Church Fathers’ but far less...
The Pope, as the head of the Catholic Church, led the single most powerful institution of the...
Young Jews praying at the Kotel, the Western Wall, in Jerusalem (Image © Bigstock/kirill4mula) There are approximately 175,000...
Was persecution a consistent imperial policy, and what types of punishments were inflicted on Christians? The Christian Martyrs’...
Modern reconstruction of what the Second Temple would have looked like after its renovation during the reign of Herod I...
Mosaic of the vault of the chapel of San Zeno (IX century) / Photo by Livioandronico2013, Wikimedia...
There were alternate systems of belief for those dissatisfied with the chaotic traditional religious forms. By Dr....
Desecrated Christian icons in Turkey / Photo by Georges Jansoone JoJan, Göreme Valley Open Air Museum, Cappadocia,...
Extremist Christian groups are coming out of the woodwork. By Alex Henderson / 07.19.2018 President Donald Trump—despite...
FDR / Library of Congress By Dr. Gene Zubovich / 03.22.2016 Visiting Lecturer in History University of...
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George, sixth or early seventh century, encaustic on wood,...
Centre for the Study for Christianity and Culture, University of York., Author provided New archaeological research on Glastonbury Abbey...
The Homeric Multitext, Creative Commons By Dr. Margaret Alexiou George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies Professor...
The abyss of hell. Sandro Botticelli The meaning of hell might have changed over the centuries, but for...