The purpose of this website

This website has been developed to support a course at Wycliffe College, Toronto School of Theology, in the history of early Christianity to CE 843. Although it was compiled for students, all visitors are very welcome.

The website has several links to books and articles available from the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL). If you're not a registered UTL user, you won't be able to read these, but you'll be able to identify where to find them. If you have privileges at another academic library, you can access them there.

The website includes twenty-six themes, each identified by webpage number.

Themes

• 1. Resources for study 
• 2. Introduction to historiography
• 3. Geography of the Roman Empire 
• 4. Origins 
• 5. Judaism and Christianity
• 6. Persecutions
• 7. The apologists
• 8. Diverse voices of the Christian movement
• 9. The Canon of Scripture
• 10. Early Church order
• 11. The interpretation of Scripture
• 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. Late Antiquity in the West
• 22. The road to Chalcedon
• 23. Eastern Christianity 451 – 680
• 24. Islam and Christianity
• 25. Icons 600-843
• 26. The Carolingians