It caused the dispersion of believers who spread the gospel wherever they went thus causing an increase in evangelism, as well as a further spread of the Christian faith, the opposite of what was intended.
The persecution of early christians happened first during the time of Emperor Nero,Emperor Hadrian,Decius and the last greatest persecution was the time of Emperor Diocletian.
The early Christian church, as refered to in the New testament of the Bible, refers to the people and not the buildings. The building that they met in were actually their homes which were brick and...
Ignatius was taken prisoner by the Roman authorities, and was put on a ship to be taken to Rome, where he expected, and in fact eagerly desired, to die as a martyr. His surviving letters refer to a...
Acts of the Apostles is often thought to provide the history of the early Christian Church. However, some scholars have difficulty with this, in part because of the considerable contradictions...