There has often been a misguided assumption by many who have this strange impression that before the Crusades, Christianity had been a largely pacifist and “ant...
Much has been written about the Crusades, so I will not attempt to write yet another history about them. The Crusades, though, were incredibly significant on a ...
1054 AD marked a watershed moment for the respective histories of both the Eastern Byzantine Empire and what was soon to become Western Christendom. For the pre...
When it comes to Church history, we must always remember that oftentimes the true impact of Christianity is to be found far away from the halls of power. While ...
The reason why I have not posted anything in the past week or so will soon become obvious. As I’ve been looking at the next section of my “Ways of the Worldview...
One of the things I have come to realize as I have read up on Christian history is that the impact Christianity had on all areas of life cannot be over-stated. ...
On October 28th, 312 AD, the tetrarch Constantine defeated his fellow tetrarch Maxentius, at the battle of the Milvian Bridge. The night before the battle Const...
The “Middle Ages” That Never Were Most history books lump the time between the rise of Constantine and the Renaissance as the “Middle Ages,” or the “Medieval Pe...
Now we come to the final topic regarding early Christianity in the Roman Empire: persecution. Two things must be said up front: first, despite what some might t...
In my last post, I began to look at a number of Christian philosophers from the first couple of centuries of the early Church who proved themselves to be some o...