Early Christianity (to A.D. 843)
Author: Alan L. Hayes (this is an e-mail link!)
Updated January 2012
Themes :
This website is a resource for the course WYH1010H, "Christianity to A.D. 843," a course in the Toronto School of Theology. Although it was compiled for students, all visitors are very welcome.
The website includes twenty-six themes, each identified by webpage number.
1. Resources for study
2. Introduction
to historiography
3. Geography
of the Roman Empire
4. The
primitive church
5. Judaism and Christianity
6. Persecutions
7. The
apologists
8. Diverse
faces of the Christian movement
9. Scripture: introduction
10. Early Church
order
11. Scripture: How early Christians used it
12. Antioch
and Alexandria
13. The
first Christian empire
14. Council
of Nicea
15. Saints
and the holy
16. Women in the early Church
17. Sexuality in the early Church
18. Augustine
19. Britain
20.Beyond the Empire's eastern borders
21. Early
Western Middle Ages
22. The
road to Chalcedon
23. Eastern
Christianity 451-680
24. Islam
and Christianity
25. Icons 600-843
26. The Carolingians
A devotional resource: prayers and readings within about two weeks of a saint's day from Universalis
Click for creative if not quite serious songs on early church history
