Experts say some of the lessons are at odds with the historical record or inflate the role of Christianity in major events.

The History of Christianity (HC) area studies past theological reflection on the faith and practice of the Church, especially in early and medieval Christianity. The HC area strives to appreciate ...

"I am the church, you are the church, we are the church together.” Every child who has ever spent a sultry summer morning at vacation Bible school has learned that song. It reflects the wisdom that ...

Rich, tragic, not without hope. Very unfortunately, Samuel Tadros has been blessed in the timing of his excellent survey of the past and present state of Egypt’s Coptic Christians. Just as the book ...

The churches relationship to the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment is an entangled history. Margaret Jacobs (“The Enlightenment critique of Christianity,” in The Cambridge History of ...

Although Diana Butler Bass doesn’t refer to Jaroslav Pelikan’s definition of tradition—“the living faith of the dead”—her People’s History is a reflection of that definition. Writing for ...

The narrative explores her later-life pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where she is believed to have discovered the True Cross and inspired the construction of some of Christianity’s earliest and most ...

Caritas (Charity), 1559, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Found in the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Caritas (Charity), 1559, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Found in the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north of the Alps. Computer ...

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