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Two fundamentally different Christologies developed in the early Church, namely a "low" or adoptionist Christology, and a "high" or "incarnation Christology." [124] The chronology of the development of these early Christologies is a matter of debate within contemporary scholarship. [125] [77] [126] [web 15]
Carthage, in the Roman province of Africa, south of the Mediterranean from Rome, gave the early church the Latin fathers Tertullian [133] (c. 120 – c. 220) and Cyprian [134] (d. 258). Carthage fell to Islam in 698. The Church of Carthage thus was to the Early African church what the Church of Rome was to the Catholic Church in Italy. [135]
If God Spare my Life, Abacus, ISBN 978-0-349-11532-0; Murphy, Catherine M. (2007), The Historical Jesus for Dummies, For Dummies Pub. Newton, Francis (1999), "The Date of the Midecean Tacitus", The Scriptorium and Library at Monte Cassino, 1058–1105, Cambridge University Press; O'Grady, John (1997), The Roman Catholic church: its origins and ...
Long-held Christian teachings on sexuality, marriage, and family life have also been influential and controversial in recent times. [9]: 309 Christianity in general affected the status of women by condemning marital infidelity, divorce, incest, polygamy, birth control, infanticide (female infants were more likely to be killed), and abortion.
[15] [16] Among the early Church Fathers there was debate over whether God created the world in six days, as Clement of Alexandria taught, [17] or in a single moment as held by Augustine, [18] and a literal interpretation of Genesis was normally taken for granted in the Middle Ages and later, until it was rejected in favour of uniformitarianism ...
[1] [13] The Christian church established incarnation and resurrection as its first doctrines, with baptism and the celebration of the Eucharist meal (Jesus's Last Supper) as its two primary rituals. [14] [15] Early Christians first gathered into small groups inside private homes, where the typical setting for worship was the communal meal.
Jesus preaches around Galilee, and in Matthew 4:18–20, his first disciples, who will eventually form the core of the early Church, encounter him and begin to travel with him. [ 133 ] [ 154 ] This period includes the Sermon on the Mount , one of Jesus's major discourses, [ 154 ] [ 155 ] as well as the calming of the storm , the feeding of the ...
Early Church Texts; The Early Christians in Their Own Words (free Ebook – English or Arabic) Catholic Encyclopedia: The Fathers of the Church; PBS Frontline: The First Christians "The Old Testament of the Early Church" Revisited, Albert C. Sundberg, Jr. The Jewish Roman World of Jesus Archived 2010-08-17 at the Wayback Machine