Excavation work in Turkey’s ancient Olympus revealed intricate mosaic patterns and inscriptions at a church entrance. Known ...

As a review in The New York Times puts it, Nixon casts the early Christian church as "a master of anti-intellectualism, iconoclasm, and mortal prejudice." Subscribe to The Week.

The pre-Christendom church managed to avoid both isolationism and accommodationism. Their model gives us a map for post-Christendom challenges. I attended seminary in the 1970s. I had to take ...

The early Church’s faith in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and in the importance of works and free will in their theology of salvation were all key.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a long-lost early Christian community, which sheds new light on the religion's history. Excavations conducted in the village of Samahij, Bahrain, between ...

While Minnesota may be relatively new on the scale of Church history, it does hold the remains of one of the Church’s first saints. In the reliquary underneath St. John’s Abbey and University Church ...

As I reflect upon the church today and the early Christian church, there many differences. The early church devoted itself to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and ...

How diverse should the early church be? Joe Hoover, S.J. May 10, 2023. ... There are fundamentals every Christian needs to believe to call ourselves Christian: Christ is God incarnate; ...