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  2. Church history - Wikipedia

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    Church history or ecclesiastical history as an academic discipline studies the history of Christianity and the way the Christian Church has developed since its inception. Henry Melvill Gwatkin defined church history as "the spiritual side of the history of civilized people ever since our Master's coming". [ 1 ]

  3. Christian Church - Wikipedia

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    University of Virginia: Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Church as an Institution, retrieved May 10, 2007; Christianity and the Roman Empire, Ancient History Romans, BBC Home, retrieved May 10, 2007 Archived 2019-08-05 at the Wayback Machine; Orthodox Church, MSN Encarta, retrieved May 10, 2007 Orthodox Church – MSN Encarta.

  4. History of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    The Church was seen by its supporters as a universal church based on belief. [ 139 ] [ 140 ] Ancient authors identified any practice or doctrine which differed from apostolic tradition as heresy . [ 141 ] [ 70 ] [ 142 ] The number of laws directed at heresy indicate it was a much higher priority than paganism for Christians of this period.

  5. History of Christianity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A Religious History of the American People (1972) the standard history excerpt and text search; Albright, Raymond W. A history of the Protestant Episcopal Church (1964) Balmer, Randall. Protestantism in America (2005)

  6. History of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Catholic Church is the formation, events, and historical development of the Catholic Church through time.. According to the tradition of the Catholic Church, it started from the day of Pentecost at the upper room of Jerusalem; [1] the Catholic tradition considers that the Church is a continuation of the early Christian community established by the Disciples of Jesus.

  7. Timeline of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Socrates Scholasticus Church History of 305-438; Sozomen Church History of 323-425; 451 Council of Chalcedon, 4th ecumenical, declared Jesus is a Hypostatic Union: both human and divine in one (Chalcedonian Creed), rejected by Oriental Orthodoxy; 455 Sack of Rome by the Vandals.

  8. Early Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Thus the Edessan church traced its origin to the Apostolic Age (which may account for its rapid growth), and Christianity even became the state religion for a time. The Church of the East had its inception at a very early date in the buffer zone between the Parthian and Roman Empires in Upper Mesopotamia, known as the Assyrian Church of the ...

  9. Ecclesiastical History (Eusebius) - Wikipedia

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    An 1842 edition of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History. The Ecclesiastical History (Ancient Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ Ἱστορία, Ekklēsiastikḕ Historía; Latin: Historia Ecclesiastica), also known as The History of the Church and Church History, is a 4th-century chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century, composed by ...