From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,”is a brilliant, pithy summation of communist philosophy ...

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 ...

This article attempts to understand the ethical implications of the early Christian leaders entrusted with the affairs of the first-century church started by Jesus Christ before his execution in 30 A.

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 ...