Church and synagogue vis-à-vis Roman rule in the second century William Horbury Part II. Discerning Continuity and Discontinuity in Early Christianity: 5. The second century from the perspective of ...

What is the account that we get from Acts about the early ... Christianity had developed. They still clung to a charismatic leadership model. And so there was a lot of variety in 2nd and 3rd ...

Paul to the Philippians. This discovery is particularly significant because it suggests that Christianity could have reached north of the Alps as early as the 3rd century, pushing previous ...

Until now, traces of Christianity in this region were at least 50 years later, primarily from the 4th century CE. Although historical texts mention Christian communities in regions such as Gaul or the ...