Events that occurred this week in Christian history include a Spanish Inquisition ceremony being performed, the first church ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Journal of World Christianity Vol. 9, No. 1, 2019 The Study of World Christianity Past, Pr... The Study of World Christianity Past, Present, and Future: ...

Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north of the Alps. Computer technology helped unravel the mystery of the text ...

Keywords: Christianity, history of religions, longue durée, theory and method of medieval studies, global Middle Ages, inter‐connectivity, late antiquity, medieval and early modern studies. Embedded ...

I believe that it was the religion's particular doctrines that permitted Christianity to be among the most sweeping and successful revitalization movements in history. And it was the way these ...

Karen L. King is Professor of New Testament Studies and the History of Ancient Christianity at Harvard University in the Divinity School. She has published widely in the areas of Gnosticism ...

While male voices have dominated our understanding of Christian theology and history, significant work over the last fifty years has sought out and made available the voices of powerful and important ...

Mary gave birth to Jesus in Bethlehem and laid him in a manger. There, according to the gospels, he was visited by kings and shepherds who had heard about his birth. Advent is the season leading ...

A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out, unafraid to risk official censure or ...

But within a hundred years this persecuted faith became the official religion of the Roman empire, and over time Aaron and Julius were acknowledged as the first Welsh Christian martyrs.