Of Jesus’ 12 disciples, Saint Peter is one of the most important. In the Book of Matthew, Jesus declares that Peter is the “rock” on which “I will build my church,” and Catholic tradition considers ...

Early Christian communities produced far more literature than the texts that ultimately became the New Testament. Many writers expanded the stories of biblical figures, creating dramatic narratives ...

The Shepherd of Hermas was one of the most widely read Christian texts in the early centuries of the church. Written in Rome sometime in the late first or early second century, the work presents a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A relic said to be part of Saint Thecla's arm has been kept in the Cathedral of Tarragona, Spain for centuries. Gaspar ...

(The Conversation) — The ‘Shepherd of Hermas’ has been accused of being pedantic, even boring. In the first few centuries of Christianity, though, it was a hit. (The Conversation) — People usually ...

An important piece of early Christian history, the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, sold for nearly $3.9 million on June 11, 2024, at Christie’s in London. This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt ...

Valentin de Boulogne's oil-on-canvas painting “Saint Paul Writing his Epistles” is one of many depictions of Paul and other Christian writers toiling alone, perhaps with the help of the holy spirit or ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christy Cobb, University of Denver (THE CONVERSATION) Of Jesus’ 12 disciples, Saint ...

People usually think about the Bible as a book with a fixed number of texts within its pages: 24 books in the Jewish version of the Bible; 66 for Protestants; 73 for Catholics; 81 if you’re Ethiopian ...