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 fact of servile collaborators is clear to students of Christian history. The prolific mid-third-century Christian theologian Origen, whose critical editions of the Hebrew Bible and theory of ...

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 ...