early Christian
Pre-Constantine church member
Early Christian describes the period, people, art, and practices of Christianity from its origins through roughly the 6th century.
The term appears in art history early Christian architecture, religious studies early Christian communities, and archaeology early Christian burial sites.
It designates the formative era before Christianity split into distinct Eastern and Western traditions.
- Church FathersAuthoritative early Christian theologians
- desert fathersEarly monks of Egypt
- EucharistSacramental bread and wine
- breaking breadSharing food communally
- liturgyFormal worship structure
Council of Nicaea · paganism · Edict of Milan · martyrdom · baptism · living water · iconography · fish symbol · Good Shepherd · catacombs · house churches · basilicas · apocrypha · epistles · Roman Empire · Pentecost · holy spirit · Gnosticism
early Christianlate medieval
early ChristianJewish
Of a Semitic people
pre-Christian · pagan · Manichaean · Zoroastrian · Stoic