Christianity in the ante-Nicene period
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The Ante-Nicene Period (literally meaning "before Nicaea") of the history of early Christianity was the period following the Apostolic Age of the 1st century down to the First Council of Nicaea in 325. This period of Christian history had a significant impact on the unity of doctrine across all Christendom and the spreading of Christianity to a greater area of the world. Those seen as prominent figures of this era, referred to as the Ante-Nicene Fathers or Proto-orthodox Christians, generally agreed on most doctrine while the teachings of those early Christian writers which the general majority considered to be heretical, were rejected.
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See also
- Ante-Nicene Fathers (book)
- Ancient church councils (pre-ecumenical)
- Christianity and Judaism
- Christian martyrs
- Christian monasticism
- Christianization
- Chronological list of saints in the 2nd century
- Chronological list of saints in the 3rd century
- Descriptions in antiquity of the execution cross
- Diversity in early Christian theology
- Early centers of Christianity
- Early Christian art and architecture
- Great Church
- Hellenistic Judaism
- History of Calvinist-Arminian debate
- History of Christian theology
- History of Christianity
- History of Oriental Orthodoxy
- History of the Roman Catholic Church
- History of the Eastern Orthodox Church
- Historiography of early Christianity
- List of Church Fathers
- Persecution of Christians in the New Testament
- Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
- Split of Christianity and Judaism
- Timeline of Christian missions#Early Christianity
- Timeline of Christianity#Ante-Nicene period
- Timeline of Eastern Orthodoxy in Greece (33–717)
- Timeline of the Roman Catholic Church
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