The triumph of Christianity is actually a very remarkable historical phenomenon. ... We begin with a small group from the backwaters of the Roman Empire and after two, three centuries go by, lo ...

From a small Israelite sect whose leader had been summarily executed by Roman authorities in the 30s AD, early Christian communities continued to spread, despite occasional periods of official ...

Constantine’s decree in 321, however, does not go that far. ... “Christians did not relate Sunday observances with the commandment to rest on the Sabbath. . . .

Emperor Constantine the Great famously converted to Christianity in the early 4th century CE. But how did this happen? What did Constantine really believe? Vance in Greenland: ‘We do not think ...

Before Emperor Constantine recognized Christianity as a legal religion in 313, corporate ownership of property by the church could be legally ambiguous.