Several scholars have argued that the word “jealousy” here refers to intra-Christian disputes, meaning that it was because of other church members that Peter and Paul ended up being arrested ...

Christianity ... the end of time. Paul knew Peter, James and other aging followers who had personally known and followed Jesus. It is tempting to imagine what the core of early apostles thought ...

Finally, if St. Paul did not recognize St. Peter's teaching authority ... Succession was a fact of life in the early Church, as witnessed by the early Christian writings. The primacy of the ...

On Tuesday, June 29, the Church celebrates the feast day of Sts. Peter and Paul. As early as the year 258 ... on his way to Damascus to persecute the Christian community there.

And so, they saw Saints Peter and Paul ... of the early Church in Rome can be a great help to the Church today. In the midst of Western state of affairs, it seems that some within the Christian ...

Saint Paul, a founding figure of the Christian Church, is pictured with a book and the sword he was martyred by in this oil painting by Batoni. After Jesus' death in A.D. 33 , his early followers ...

Certainly there's evidence in the New Testament itself of women doing many things within early Christianity. In ... her brother, Peter, suggesting that the representatives of the church that ...

After Jesus' crucifixion, Peter is said to have become the leader, or first pope, of the early Christian church. The tradition of the Church of the Apostles dates back to A.D. 725, when a Bavarian ...

In the early ... Church broke with the Jews and turned to the Gentiles it was forced to adopt Gentile modes of expression and thought. Saul of Tarsus was indeed a Hellenist; but Paul was a ...