Discovering the beliefs, practices and policies of early Christians is a fascinating pursuit. To help with this, here are some resources on early church history that are freely available online.
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Matthew 27:19 mentions Pontius Pilate’s wife and her dream about Jesus. What do we know of this woman? Was she a Jewish convert? A Christ-follower?
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Aemilia Lanyer was an English author and a professing Christian. She promoted equality and freedom for women in her poetry which was published in 1611.
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Not all first-century women fit the stereotype of being hidden and housebound. In this discussion I look at how wealthy women were influential and prominent in society and in the church.
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Here are a couple of lines from the Acts of Peter about Candida, a Roman woman who instructed her husband in the faith sometime around 60 AD.
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This is the second part of a two-part series which looks at the women in the church at Smyrna in the post-apostolic period. This article focuses on Gavia.
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In Christian writings known as the Apostolic Fathers (late 1st and early 2nd centuries) we discover that women were active in ministry in the church at Smyrna. Part 1 looks at Alke (or Alce) of Smyrna.
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Selina Hastings, the Countess of Huntingdon, was a tireless and influential leader and benefactor of the Methodist movement in Britain in the 1700s.
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Here are links to New Testament courses of videoed lectures, and other resources, presented by Bible scholars, plus a tutorial on how to use Google Books.
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In this article Rob Dixon writes about the egalitarian views of Count Zinzendorf (b.1700) who once stated “If we put women in the corner we will lose a jewel.”
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In this post I provide links to ancient Gnostic works which present Eve in a very different light to that of the Bible. Do these works help us to better understand Paul’s intent in 1 Timothy 2:13-14?
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I’m amazed by the amount of letters and other documents that were composed by early Christians. Eusebius discusses some of these in his church history, including those he sourced from the library in Jerusalem.
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