Early Christianity
development of Jewish ideas of martyrdom occurred mainly in the first few centuries ADin a context where Jewish and Christian id ...
turned out to be very successful. By the third century Christians were constructing churches like that found at Dura Europos and ...
Lyons spoke around 180 of Christians in Germany, Spain, Gaul, the East, Libya, and Egypt (Against Heresies1.10.2) – but he did s ...
Christians the word ‘laity’ might mean (Clarke 1984–9: IV, 141–5). The same is true for many Christian groups throughout the Rom ...
data – indeed, Hopkins called his study ‘an experiment’ and his methods ‘frankly speculative and exploratory’ (1998: 155). Both ...
evidence from Cyprian for the existence of only three Spanish Christian communities in the mid-third century. For the same perio ...
communities (1986: 271–3). It is clear that by the beginning of the fourth century, Christianity was more evenly distributed acr ...
and in neighbouring Vienne. Such details suggest two organized Christian communities in southern Gaul – but how long they had be ...
probably his last letter he admitted that in certain regions of the west ‘the very name of Christ has not been heard’ (Romans 15 ...
place of Jewish communities in Christian missionary strategies must have declined. The reasons for this are simply numerical: th ...
of trade, industry, and Rome’s administration in the province of Asia, and for these various reasons it was home to a large and ...
condemned for heresy) Marcion had been a ship-owner on the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor (Tertullian, Against Heresies30.1); but ...
frontier. If information about the fourth-century Gothic bishop Ulfilas can be trusted, then Christianity came to the Goths from ...
was no sharp division between the supernatural world of cosmic powers and the natural world of humankind. Such stories occur in ...
through philosophy, which brought him to follow (in succession) the Stoics, the Peripatetics, the Pythagoreans, and the Platonis ...
boundaries between Judaism and Christianity were extremely por- ous well into late antiquity. This hints at how religious curios ...
themselves as theosebeis, precisely the term used to designate the pagan/gentile ‘god-worshippers’ who attached themselves to Je ...
Any account of the success of Christianity in securing converts in the Roman world must take account of this fluidity of religio ...
Inscriptions and chronology However much Actsmight seem, at first reading, to be a ‘straight’ history, it lacks one of the cruci ...
Thessalonians. The account of his stay at Corinth in Acts18.1–17 implies that he spent some considerable time in the city. It al ...
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