Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Christianity spread from the Levant, across the Roman Empire, and beyond.

2025年1月16日 · History of early Christianity, the development of the early Christian church from its roots in the Jewish community of Roman Palestine to the conversion of Constantine I and the convocation of the First Council of Nicaea.

2023年8月18日 · The Early Christian Church. From the time of Nero (64 A.D.) until the conversion of Emperor Constantine and the Edict of Milan (313 A.D.), whereby Christianity was made legal, the Christian faith was officially regarded as a religio prava, an evil or depraved religion. Christianity's Jewish Roots

2020年5月22日 · The early Christian church in the first three centuries after Jesus's resurrection brought about the most amazing transformation of diverse social and religious cultures ever achieved by peaceful means in the history of the world.

The early church was missional, flexible, often underground, and prioritized above all maintaining a historical connection with Jesus. [pages 6–7] By the end of the 1st century, all of Christ’s apostles had died—most were martyred.

2020年1月10日 · Tim Keller considers 5 ways the early church was unique to its culture and how those features both attracted new members and resulted in persecution. The early Christian church was a counterculture—simultaneously offensive and attractive.

In what follows I will give a brief account of what the early church looked like: how it became distinct from Judaism, how Christian came together and worshiped, how they organized the governing or hierarchical structure of Christian communities.

2018年3月15日 · Emerging from a small sect of Judaism in the 1st century CE, early Christianity absorbed many of the shared religious, cultural, and intellectual traditions of the Greco-Roman world. In traditional...

2016年6月9日 · The early Christian communities were made up of all sorts of people, without any class or other kind of distinction. From Apostolic times, the Church was open to Jews and Gentiles, rich and poor, free men and slaves.

2025年1月13日 · A clever conceit, unless you are striving for “homonoia (concord), and homodoxia (same opinion),” which increasingly inspired most early church debates that occasionally got ugly. The story goes that before being ejected from the first Council of Nicaea in 325, Arius, who dismissed the doctrine of the Trinity, got slapped in the face by the ...