Early church

The early church is a term that commonly refers to the time period after the death of Jesus (c. 30 AD) to 600 AD.

Multimedia

• Ancient and Medieval Church History (MP3s), by David Calhoun

Further reading

Primary

• Early Church Fathers (ccel)
• Early Christian Writings

Secondary

• Robert Louis Wilken, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought. Yale University Press, 2003.
• Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600). University of Chicago Press, 1971. Paperback, 1975.
• David W. Bercot, ed., A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs. Hendrickson Publishers, 1998.

• J.N.D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines. Prince Press, 1958. New edition,

  2003. ISBN 1565639111.
• John Anthony McGuckin, The Westminster Handbook to Patristic Theology. Westminster John Knox, 2004. ISBN 0664223966.
• G. R. Evans, The First Christian Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Early Church. Wiley-Blackwell, 2004. ISBN 0631231870.

See also

• Early church fathers
• Church history

External links

• Guide to Early Christian Documents

• The Early Church, includes many resources

• Sketches of Church History on BibleStudyTools.com

• FourthCentury.com

• The Future Lies in the Past: Why evangelicals are connecting with the early church as they move into the 21st century, by Chris Armstrong ( Christianity Today)

• Early Church Online Encyclopedia