Christianity from a persecuted sect to the dominant religion of the Roman Empire. It examines key events such as the Edict of Milan in 313 AD, which legalized Christianity, and the Edict of ...

A silver amulet found in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of being Christian in Roman times.

The imperialization of Christianity can be seen in some of the monuments of Rome itself where imperial ideology and symbolism, the trappings of imperial grandeur, are brought into and overlaid ...

He further judged Roman Catholicism the best source of authoritative, consistent Christian truth-telling because of its doctrinal center (the papacy) and commitment to tradition.

Hermann Sasse, a sober and cautious Lutheran, wrote in 1966 that Rome is on the road to a reformation, while Pope Paul VI, less optimistic, said late in 1968 that the Roman Catholic Church had ...

A Roman governor ordered Jesus’ crucifixion — so why did many Christians blame Jews for centuries? Throughout history, Christians have often believed Pontius Pilate was reluctant to condemn Jesus.

Mark Lewis Tizzoni, Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies, has co-authored a new paper in The Palgrave Handbook of African Christianity from Apostolic Times to the Present..