The anchor became a key Christian symbol during the period of Roman persecution. As Michael Card observes in his recent album, Soul Anchor: "The first century symbol wasn't the cross; it was the ...

Today, the cross is the universal symbol of Christianity. It was not always so. In the early centuries after the time of Jesus Christ, there were other symbols: a dove, a ship, an anchor and a lyre.

The Greek word for fish is "ichthys." As early as the first century, Christians made an acrostic from this word: Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter, i.e. Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior. The fish ...

The first was in the first Century with Christianity, ... Christians in the ancient world used the fish symbol "Ichthys in Greek" or ΙΧΘΥΣ, the oldest known Christian symbol.

Matt Wilson explores how a simple symbol connects Jesus, Buddha and Apollo. Christianity ... of the original circular halo in religious art only takes us back as far as the 1st Century BC.

Archaeologists discovered a fourth-century Christian church in Armenia, considered the country’s oldest. Armenia is believed to be the first Christian state in the world after King Tiridates III ...