Early Christianity in the context of Roman society raises important questions for historians, sociologists of religion and theologians alike. This work explores the differing perspectives arising from ...

In short, I left the Catholic Church after feeling betrayed by the sex abuse scandal, so I joined a new progressive church I ...

An ancient silver amulet found in a 3rd-century Roman grave in Frankfurt reveals the earliest known Christian inscription in ...

Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire by the Emperor Constantine in the 4th century AD. Before then, Christians got into trouble because they refused to worship the ...

The 'Frankfurt Silver Inscription', a 3rd-century amulet, pushes back Christianity's history in the region by 50 to 100 years ...

The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire, but its principles were sometimes misunderstood and membership of the sect could be dangerous. Although ...

The martyrs became heroes of an emergent Christian order that the Roman Empire simply couldn’t suppress. Then, suddenly, Christianity had the legal support of the emperor Constantine ...

The triumph of Christianity is actually a very remarkable historical phenomenon. ... We begin with a small group from the backwaters of the Roman Empire and after two, three centuries go by ...