Now here’s a divine development. Just ahead of the holidays, archaeologists have “digitally unrolled” a 1,800-year-old silver amulet to decipher an inscription that’s being hailed as the oldest known ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is preparing to host a conference this week that is the first of its kind. While hosting a church ...

The History of Christianity (HC) area studies past theological reflection on the faith and practice of the Church, especially in early and medieval Christianity. The HC area strives to appreciate ...

Christmas and Epiphany developed not in competition but in conversation: one celebrates God entering human history; the other proclaims the nature of this child. Which feast came first matters less ...

Kenneth Scott Latourette was the first, and until recent years, almost the only major historian to write the history of Christianity in a way that dealt seriously with its presence in all six ...

In his new book, Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings that Made Christianity, Fergus Butler-Gallie attempts to do just that but on a global scale. The 12 churches in the book are from ...

(The Conversation) — In 1915, Norwegian artist Emanuel Vigeland, one of the most respected Scandinavian artists of his time, created an image of Christ with golden hair and fair skin. Vigeland was ...