03) The Birth of the Church (6 BC - AD 70)

To understand the Christ of Christianity we must first understand Jesus the Jew along with the historical particularities, sometimes termed “scandalous,” into which incarnate God purposefully stepped.

A. Orendorff

St. Paul in Macedonia

PDF by F F Bruce

Pauline Studies - The Paul Project

Web Page by Dr Reggie Kidd

Life of St. Paul

Web Page by James Stalker

Perspective on the World of Jesus

Web Page by Mahlon H Smith

Josephus' Writings and Their Relation to the New Testament

Web Page by Greg Herrick PhD

Christianity under Claudius

PDF by F F Bruce

St. John at Ephesus

PDF by F F Bruce

The Literature and History of New Testament Times

Web Page by J Gresham Machen

Not One Stone Left Upon Another: The fall of Jerusalem

Web Page by Dr Paul Maier

Church History

Web Page by Eusebius

Jerusalem, the Mother Church: The development of the apostolic church from the perspective of Jerusalem

PDF by Rob Van Houwelingen

Why does anyone become a Christian?

Web Page by Timothy J Keller

The Peculiarity of Early Christian Worship (or How Early Christians Managed to Offend Just about Everybody)

Web Page by Michael J Kruger

Learning from the Early Church

Web Page by Adam Parker

The Jerusalem Council

Web Page by Dennis E Johnson

How OT Scriptures Changed the Course of History at the Jerusalem Council

Web Page by Gregory R. Lanier