The second century is often considered to be a time during which the Christian church moved relentlessly towards forms of institutionalisation and consolidated itself against so-called heretics.

Archaeologists discovered a fourth-century Christian church in Armenia, considered the country’s oldest. Armenia is believed ...

Christianity is thought to have arrived in Britain in the 2nd Century ... their particular styles of worship. The Church of England - the established Christian Church in England – is thought ...

Reviews of the hardback: '… provocative, convincing … reads second-century Christian literature, texts of the Second Sophistic ... which made this a rewarding read.' Journal of Church History 'This ...

Christianity first arrived in North Africa, in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. The Christian communities ... the beginnings of the Dutch Reform Church in 1652. In the interior of the continent ...