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What did the early church believe about killing? What was its view on abortion? How did it approach capital punishment and war? Noted theologian and bestselling

Could you retain your faith even if it meant losing your life? Your family’s lives? To many Christians in the Middle East today, a “momentary, light afflict

The Catholic Church has in recent decades been associated with political efforts to eliminate the death penalty. It was not always so. This timely work reviews

How and why did the early church grow in the first four hundred years despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional persecution? In this unique historical s

An expert on early Christianity reveals how the early church invented stories of Christian martyrs—and how this persecution myth persists today. According to