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A key characteristic of early Christianity was its unique type of exclusivity. [76] Believing was the crucial and defining characteristic of membership – believers were separated from the "unbelievers" and heretics by a strong social boundary. [77] [78] [79] This exclusivity gave Christianity the psychological attraction of elitism. [80]
Christian History Project Online Version of the 12-Volume Popular History Series The Christians : Their First Two Thousand Years, Sponsored by the Society to Explore and Record Christian History; Flavius Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews, earlyjewishwritings.com; Flavius Josephus: Early Jewish Writings- The Wars Of The Jews, earlyjewishwritings.com
A New History of Early Christianity. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-17083-2. González, Justo L. (1987). A History of Christian Thought. Vol. 1: From the Beginnings to the Council of Chalcedon (revised ed.). Abingdon Press. ISBN 978-0-687-17182-8. González, Justo L. (2010). The Story of Christianity. Vol. 1 The Early Church to the Dawn ...
Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine (centre), accompanied by the bishops of the First Council of Nicaea (325), holding the Niceno–Constantinopolitan Creed of 381. In the history of Christianity, the first seven ecumenical councils include the following: the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the First Council of Constantinople in 381, the Council of Ephesus in 431, the Council of Chalcedon ...
It developed into Early Christianity (see also List of events in early Christianity). The quest for the historical Jesus began with the work of Hermann Samuel Reimarus in the 18th century. [ 84 ] Two books, both called The Life of Jesus were written by David Strauss , published in German in 1835–36, and Ernest Renan , published in French in 1863.
364 – Rome returns to Christianity, specifically the Arian Church; c. 364 – Vandals (Arian Church) 376 – Goths and Gepids (Arian Church) 380 – Rome goes from Arian to Catholic/Orthodox (both terms are used refer to the same Church until 1054) 402 – Maronites (Nicene Church) 411 – Kingdom of Burgundy (Nicene Church)
The early Christian apologist Tertullian recorded that footwashing was a regular part of early Christian worship. [154] Footwashing was done with a basin "of water for the saints' feet" and a "linen towel". [151] Being commanded in John 13, footwashing done in the imitation of Jesus was a rite encouraged by Origen. [154]
The Church of the East had its inception at a very early date in the buffer zone between the Parthian and Roman Empires in Assyria, and Edessa (now Şanlıurfa) in northwestern Mesopotamia was from apostolic times the principal center of Syriac-speaking Christianity. When early Christians were scattered abroad because of persecution, some found ...