Category: Early Church Characters / Personalities

• Understanding Jesus: Separating Faith from Early Christian Influence

  

  If you grew up in (or are currently a member of) a protestant church, you have probably been allowed to believe that your faith has been relatively unchanged throughout the millennia. Catholicism (your church’s grand-pappy) has had a colorful history filled with all manner of exciting events among them the councils. The catholic councils would…

  Timos Trismegistus

  January 29, 2025

  Early Christian Beliefs, Early Christian Groups, Early Church Characters / Personalities, First Century Figures, History, Judaism, Paul, Rome, Scripture

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• Papias of Hieropolis

  

  Papias of Hieropolis is more than just an amazing name for your next child; he may be one of the most important players in early Christian history that you have (probably) never heard of. It is through him that what little we know about the author of the “main” gospel, Mark, comes to us today.…

  Timos Trismegistus

  August 5, 2023

  Early Church Characters / Personalities, History, Paul, Scripture

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• Thecla; the First First-Woman of the Church.

  For as long as anyone can remember, Mary the mother of Jesus has held the position of the highest revered woman of the Church. By sheer volume, more prayers are said to her than any other person; including Jesus. In the early Church however, there was another woman who contended for that honor. Thecla. The…

  Timos Trismegistus

  June 28, 2023

  Early Church Characters / Personalities, Paul, Scripture

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