Despite this, Nero's persecution of the new Christian sect was brief and, in the first century at least, was not repeated in other parts of the empire. When asked by Pliny the Younger how to deal ...

What is this insidious ideology? Gnosticism. Gnosticism is one of the oldest Christian heresies. Emerging in the first century, gnostics taught a radical duality between the spiritual and physical ...

As Easter approaches, Christians around the world begin to focus on two of the central tenets of their faith: the death and ...

Image caption, Christianity spread quickly through the provinces of the Roman Empire, shown here at its height in the early 2nd Century. Historians would rightly point to a single event in the 4th ...

In the first century of our era there were many sects ... second century of our era was an age of definition not just for Christianity but also for Judaism. In Christianity, of course, the second ...

Christianity first arrived in North Africa, in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. The Christian communities in North Africa were among the earliest in the world. Legend has it that Christianity was ...