Judaism and the Rise of Christianity 33-476

Christianity to AD 284

• Life of Jesus 4 BC-AD 30
• Age of Apostles 30AD-70AD
• Paul's Missionary Travels and Letters 38AD-65AD
• Scriptures Written 70AD-100AD
• Age of the Church Fathers to 476
• Tertullian Flourished 200
• Origen Flourished 250

Painting and Architecture

• Had Christians obeyed the Second Commandment, no Christian figurative art would have been produced.  Indeed even the earliest Christian writers, including Tertullian and Origen, condemned the depiction of religious subjects as blasphemous.  But pious Christians, attracted by the pull of humanism, commissioned frescoes for underground burial chambers and sculptures for their sarcophagi, or marble tombs.

Church Fathers and Ecumenical Councils

• Council of Nicea I  325 AD
• First Council of Constantinople  381
• Council of Ephesus  431
• Council of Chalcedon  451

Tertullian  160-225

• Treatises on Penance: On Penitence and On Purity (Ancient Christian Writers) (Hardcover)
• A Treatise On The Soul (Paperback)

Augustine 354-430

• Four Anti-Pelagian Writings: "On Nature and Grace", "On the Proceedings of Pelagius", "On the Predestination of the Saints" and "On the Gift of Perseverance" (Fathers of the Church S.)
• Later Works
• On Genesis

Athanasius 293-373

• On the Incarnation: The Treatise De Incarnatione Verbi Dei (Paperback)
• St. Athanasius: The Life of St. Antony (Ancient Christian Writers) (Hardcover)

Jerome 347-419

• Letters of St. Jerome, Vol. 1 (Ancient Christian Writers) (Hardcover)
• The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation : Saint Jerome : Dogmatic and Polemical Works (Fathers of the Church, Vol 53) (Hardcover)

Ignatius of Antioch 35-107

• The Epistles of St. Clement of Rome and St. Ignatius of Antioch (Ancient Christian Writers) (Hardcover)
• The Gospel and Ignatius of Antioch (Studies in Biblical Literature, V. 12) (Hardcover)

Irenaeus of Lyons 115-202

• St. Irenaeus of Lyons: Against the Heresies (Ancient Christian Writers) (Hardcover)
• Irenaeus of Lyons (The Early Church Fathers) (Paperback)

Origen of Alexandria 185-254

• Origen: An Exortation to Martyrdom, Prayer, and Selected Works (Paperback)
• Origen: The Song of Songs, Commentary and Homilies (Ancient Christian Writers) (Hardcover)

John Chrysostom  374-407

• St. John Chrysostom: Commentary on the Psalms (Paperback)
• St. John Chrysostom on Repentance and Almsgiving (Fathers of the Church) (Hardcover)

Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna  69-155

• The Didache: The Epistle of Barnabas, The Epistles and the Martyrdom of St. Polycarp, The Fragments of Papias, The Epistle to Diognetus (Ancient Christian Writers) (Hardcover)