Christianity at the Crossroads: How the Second Century Shaped the Future of the Church (Biblia.com)

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Christianity at the Crossroads examines the crucial issues that faced the second-century Church—a period often neglected or overlooked in other studies. It was during this period that the fledgling Church struggled to work out its identity and stay true to the vision of Christ and the apostles. Threatened by divisive controversies from within and fierce persecution from without, the Church’s...

century.4 We must be careful not to study second-century Christianity as if its future were already predetermined. That said, we must also be careful of the opposite mistake. The diversity and complexity of this time period does not necessitate a view where the Christian movement is merely stuck in a morass of conflict and does not change or develop at all. It is not illegitimate to ask how (and why) early Christianity might have looked different at the end of the second century from how it did at

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