Category: Church History

This history covered by this post begins several centuries before the Protestant Reformation. The events that occurred during this time set the stage for the Reformation to play out as it did. Certain specifics are elaborated in the Events section below, but this section presents an overall if simplified narrative of major historical trends that… Read more

Outside of Scripture, there is very little direct historical evidence describing first century Christianity, especially with regards to specific events at specific times. Therefore, the best that historians can do is to identify the few events that are known, and to infer where other events take place in relationship to these fixed events. N.T. Wright identifies… Read more