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- Christianity taught that ancestry and bloodlines were no longer relevant. According to Paul, faith (pistis, 'loyalty') in Christ was all that was needed for salvation. This new idea resulted in a religious movement no longer confined to a geographic area or an ethnic group. Christianity became a portable religion available to all.
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History of early Christianity, the development of the early Christian church from its roots in the Jewish community of Roman Palestine to the conversion of Constantine I and the convocation of the First Council of Nicaea.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Christianity spread from the Levant, across the Roman Empire, and beyond.
Christian thought is rooted in the teachings of Jesus, and in the central documents of the Church: the (Hebrew) Old Testament and the (Greek) New Testament. These documents present a sacred history, proclaim the Christian “good news” of salvation, and give counsel and admonition on how a Christian ought to live.
Mar 15, 2018 · Emerging from a small sect of Judaism in the 1st century CE, early Christianity absorbed many of the shared religious, cultural, and intellectual traditions of the Greco-Roman world. In traditional...
- Rebecca Denova
In order to show that early Christian thought is rooted in history, worship, and the Bible, he examines different theological topics through the lens of early Christian thinkers.
Mar 11, 2005 · In this eloquent introduction to early Christian thought, eminent religious historian Robert Louis Wilken examines the tradition that such figures as St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and others set in place.
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Dec 12, 2021 · It is a historical fact that early Christian thinkers, for the most part, frequently quote and often explicitly praise Plato but rarely mention Aristotle – and then mostly in a critical light.
