Comprehensive resources that explore key periods, figures, and themes in Christian history and theology. Each dossier is carefully researched to help you understand the fullness of the Christian story.
For the first three hundred years, Christians were tested by persecuted and pressure. The next 100 years was the first time Christians were tested by power and influence. This is what happened.
In A.D. 315, the Roman Emperor Constantine sent out an edict forbidding anyone to disfigure the face of a criminal.
How did the first Christians worship? And why were the Romans so scared of them?
Explore the very first church building ever discovered and the most brutal period of Christian Persecution
Inside the life and faith of the first Christian martyrs.
Explore the first 300 years of Christological debate. Find out about the Heretics, Gnostics, and first Theologians.
We introduce you to eight strange but beautiful images early Christian theologians used to describe what happens at the Cross – some of which may surprise you.
In AD 335 the Emperor Constantine (r. 306-337) celebrated his tricennalia, the thirtieth anniversary of his proclamation as emperor. Following decades of crisis, division and instability, he had reunited the empire, and had reigned longer than any emperor since Augustus, the very first.
The word Trinity isn’t used anywhere in the Bible, and yet it is one of, if not, the most central tenets of the entire Christian faith. So where did this idea come from? Does it actually make sense?
