What is the account that we get from Acts about the early history of the Christian church? The Book of Acts records or reports that there was a special event that took place at Pentecost, which would ...

The earliest known evidence of Christianity north of Italy was recently unveiled by archaeologists, who call the discovery one of the "most important testimonies of early Christianity." The artifact, ...

In the last chapter of his book Promise and Poison: The Story of Emerging Christianity, John Van Hagen writes: My purpose in writing this book is to present the efforts of emerging Christianity to ...

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, ancient ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The conventional view of a unique early Christian building dating to the 3rd century has been challenged by experts. The ...

From a 1,800-year-old mosaic calling Jesus God to the recovery of lost New Testament pages and the enduring legacy of the ...

Monks at a Greek monastery dismantled an aging 6th-century copy of the Letters ofSt. Paul sometime in the 1200s and reused ...

Of Jesus’ 12 disciples, Saint Peter is one of the most important. In the Book of Matthew, Jesus declares that Peter is the “rock” on which “I will build my church,” and Catholic tradition considers ...