The "remarkable" church, thought to be more than 1,600 years old, was found in an ancient city by a desert oasis.

They still clung to a charismatic leadership model. And so there was a lot of variety in 2nd and 3rd century Christianity.... There were very different views of Jesus in the various types of ...

After a long period in which the persecutions of Christianity were really spasmodic, local, [and] involved very few people, suddenly in the middle of the 3rd century, the year 250, the Emperor ...

The spread of new cults, including Christianity, brought unprecedented religious plurality and competition and new spiritualities to the ancient world. These did not perish in the crisis of the 3rd ...

David Litwa employs underused data from the Nag Hammadi codices and early Christian writings to open up new vistas on the creative theologians who invented Christianities in Alexandria prior to Origen ...