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Formation and Struggles: The Church AD 33–450, Part 1: The Birth of the Church AD 33–200 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This study of the formation of the church begins with the earliest Christian community in Jerusalem, led by Jesus’ disciples, and ends with the expansion of Christianity into various regions of the Roman Empire. Tracing the growing pains of the church from its birth through its separation from Judaism, to its struggle against Gnostic and pagan influences, the author demonstrates how early...

New Testament historians usually distinguish three periods in the life of the first century church.1 The first, the subject of our study, covers about five years, from the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ (AD 30) up to the call and conversion of Paul (ca. AD 35). The second ends with the destruction of the temple (AD 70), and the third takes up the events following the First Jewish-Roman War to the end of the century. We must remember that throughout
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