The "remarkable" church, thought to be more than 1,600 years old, was found in an ancient city by a desert oasis.

Correct; they died, and almost overnight. Imagine what the response of the bishops was in the early days of the American Church when the laity claimed the right to have a say in ecclesiastical ...

Early Protestantism ... that the bill enacted rules “relative purely to the organization and polity of the church incorporated, and comprehending even the election and removal of the Minister ...

The early masthead of National Review was like ... sought to conserve the absolute rule of Church and Throne. The American Founders sought to overthrow even the partial rule of Church and Throne.

Read excerpts from The Acts of Paul and Thecla. Did stories like Thecla -- the fact that the early church is urging people to abstinence, to effectively be breaking up their families, leaving ...

In the developed free-market countries--which contain less than a fifth of the earth's population but are a model for the rest--work and work force, society and polity, are all, in the last decade ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill takes on the intersection of faith and politics, from the biblical Roman ...

More than a decade ago, archaeologists began to excavate one of the world’s oldest Christian churches in the middle of a ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an ... Reading Roman history, but not rightly, early modern Western political theorists divided ...

He traces the relationship from its gestation in early Christendom to its virtual breakdown as democracy becomes the polity of modernity ... what amounts to a neo-constantinian position for the church ...

Economy, Polity and Society and its companion volume History ... They then explore the adaptations of and responses to the Enlightenment legacy in the work of such early nineteenth-century figures as ...