Roman religion and tolerance for others drastically began to change following the Edict of Milan. Introduction Constantinian...
Christianity
Trace Christianity from a Jewish movement in the Roman world into a global religion shaped by theology, worship, institutions, dissent, missionary expansion, political power, and the lived experiences of believers across two millennia.
The Protestant churches that emerged from the Reformation movements of the 12th to the 16th centuries arrived...
Cycles of Medieval church corruption coincided with the growth of strong secular rulers and were only tempered...
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...
The power of the presidency isn’t the only way Christian nationalism is advancing its agenda in America today....
A bishop granting indulgences in a fresco by Lorenzo Lotto, c. 1524 (Wikimedia Commons) To understand the...
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...
By Dr. Mark D. Smith / 03.25.2018 Professor of History The College of Idaho Pontius Pilate, and...
Memories of the largest lava flood in the history of Iceland, recorded in an apocalyptic medieval poem,...
Jews in the Syngagoue by Rembrandt / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Lars Fischer / 10.27.2017 Honorary Research...
LeventeGyori/Shutterstock.com By Dr. David Mislin / 11.08.2017 Assistant Professor, Intellectual Heritage Program Temple University Five hundred years...
By Dr. Austin Mason and Dr. Tom Williamson Mason: Assistant Professor of History, Carleton College Williamson:...
Detail of a Tapestry depicting Constantine’s Victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge designed by Peter Paul Rubens 1623-1625 CE. Photographed at...
By Dr. Ioannis Papadogiannakis Lecturer in Patristics King’s College London Earth and sea are freed from their...
Château de Coussac-Bonneval / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Virginia H. Aksan / 01.14.2011 Professor Emeritus of History...
Illustration of a small crowd gathered to watch as Martin Luther directs the posting of his 95...
European Calvinism developed powerful models of church discipline through moral oversight and debates over whether church or...
The six-line inscription in Ancient Greek found on the fragment of a 6th century AD Byzantine amphora...
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, marble, 359 C.E. (Treasury of Saint Peter’s Basilica) By Dr. Allen Farber /...
Colossal statue of Constantine the Great, 4th century (Capitoline Museum, Rome) (photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST CC BY 2.5) By Dr....