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The 113 pages that link to Early Christianity, each with the reason it gives.

• Eastern Orthodox ChurchNarrower topic: Orthodox churches trace their faith and episcopal institutions to the early Christian communities.

• SeptuagintNarrower topic: Greek-speaking Christians relied extensively on Septuagint texts when reading Jewish scripture.

• Paul the ApostleNarrower topic: Paul’s missions and disputes helped shape this emerging movement.

• Catholic ChurchNarrower topic: The Catholic Church emerged within this formative period of Christian communities.

• Roman Catholic ChurchNarrower topic: The Catholic Church traces its origins to these earliest Christian communities.

• New TestamentNarrower topic: The books emerged within the communities and debates of this formative movement.

• Eusebius of CaesareaNarrower topic: Eusebius’s histories trace this movement from its beginnings to his own era.

• Apostolic successionNarrower topic: Succession claims developed as early communities organized leadership and defended inherited teaching.

• JesusNarrower topic: These communities carried Jesus’s teachings and claims across the Roman world.

• Christian ethicsNarrower topic: Their worship, communal practices, and disputes shaped the earliest patterns of Christian moral life.

• Pauline epistlesNarrower topic: The letters arose amid the movement's expansion and institutional development.

• RelicNarrower topic: Christian relic veneration took shape within early communities honoring martyrs.

• PopeNarrower topic: The Roman bishop’s later authority emerged within this formative period.

• Christian liturgyNarrower topic: Its communities established the earliest patterns of Christian assembly and worship.

• ExcommunicationNarrower topic: Its communities developed the disciplinary practices that later became formal excommunication.

• OrigenNarrower topic: Origen’s theology belongs to Christianity’s formative centuries, before many later doctrinal settlements.

• GnosticismNarrower topic: Many Gnostic groups interpreted Christian figures and texts within their own cosmologies.

• Ignatius of AntiochNarrower topic: Ignatius’s letters document Christian communities before Christianity became legally established.

• SacramentNarrower topic: Its rites and debates preceded the later formal classification of sacraments.

• Christianization of the Roman EmpireNarrower topic: Its existing networks and beliefs formed the foundation for later imperial expansion.

• Apostolic FathersNarrower topic: The Apostolic Fathers wrote within its diverse communities and emerging institutions.

• Episcopal polityNarrower topic: Episcopal structures developed as early Christian communities organized leadership.

• Gospel of ThomasNarrower topic: Thomas emerged amid early Christian debates about Jesus's teachings and authority.

• Council of JerusalemNarrower topic: The council addressed a defining question for this emerging movement.

• OrdinationNarrower topic: Early Christian communities developed offices and practices that later traditions connected to ordination.

• DioceseNarrower topic: Bishops and local church territories took shape during the movement's early institutional development.

• PentecostNarrower topic: Pentecost is traditionally treated as a defining beginning of the movement’s public mission.

• AnnihilationismNarrower topic: Early Christian writers expressed differing views about punishment, immortality, and the fate of the wicked.

• DidacheNarrower topic: The Didache preserves practical teaching from an early Christian community.

• Latin ChurchNarrower topic: The Latin Church developed from early Christian communities, especially those in the western Roman Empire.

• HeresyNarrower topic: Christian debates about doctrine shaped influential early uses of the category heresy.

• Liturgy of the HoursNarrower topic: Early Christians adapted inherited prayer patterns into communal and daily worship.

• TertullianNarrower topic: Tertullian’s theology formed within Christianity’s early institutional and doctrinal development.

• AntiochNarrower topic: Antioch became an early center of Christian teaching, organization, and missionary activity.

• CelibacyNarrower topic: Early Christian debates helped shape later ideals of sexual continence and celibacy.

• House churchNarrower topic: The earliest Christian congregations gathered in homes across the Roman world.

• LentNarrower topic: Lent emerged gradually from early Christians’ preparation for Easter and baptism.

• Pastoral EpistlesNarrower topic: The letters portray emerging institutions and disputes within early Christian communities.

• ChristianizationNarrower topic: Its institutions and beliefs supplied the movement later adopted by rulers and populations.

• Church FathersNarrower topic: The Fathers’ writings emerged within this wider and changing religious world.

• DocetismNarrower topic: Docetism emerged amid early disputes over how divine status and human embodiment could coexist.

• Marcion of SinopeNarrower topic: Marcion’s disputes reveal the diversity and boundary-making of this period.

• RestorationismNarrower topic: Restorationism takes this formative period as its principal model for church renewal.

• CathedralNarrower topic: The episcopal offices and worship traditions that shaped cathedrals formed in early Christianity.

• Christian pacifismNarrower topic: Early Christian writings and practices provide historical evidence for Christian opposition to military violence.

• Infant baptismNarrower topic: Infant baptism's earliest evidence comes from the church's formative centuries.

• Nag Hammadi libraryNarrower topic: The collection preserves Christian writings beyond the later biblical canon.

• Papias of HierapolisNarrower topic: Papias’s fragments illuminate belief and authority in an early Christian community.

• Persecution of Christians in the Roman EmpireNarrower topic: Its growth within Roman society created the communities officials sometimes investigated or punished.

• CatholicismNarrower topic: Catholic institutions and claims of apostolic continuity developed within this movement.