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100			_aSheler, Jeffery L.,
245			_aDays of the Martyrs. / _cJeffery L. Sheler.
260			_bU.S. News & World Report (Syndicate), _c2001.
440			_aSIRS Enduring Issues 2002. _nArticle 27. _pInstitutions, _x1522-3256;
500			_aArticles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
500			_aOriginally Published: Days of the Martyrs, April 16, 2001; pp. 40-45.
520			_a"As the [Christian] movement expanded during the second and third centuries, it proved to be anything but simple. The nascent Christian church was torn by persecution and internal division as Christians struggled to understand and apply the meaning of Jesus's life, death, and Resurrection in the roiling religious caldron of the Roman Empire. Perhaps even more than the seminal events of the first century, those later conflicts and controversies would forge Christianity's future--shaping its creeds and canon and transforming a renegade Jewish sect into a powerful world religion. Just how the events and decisions of that crucial period influenced Christianity's course is a matter of intense scholarly debate." (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article reviews historians' dissenting opinions regarding this issue and includes a "glossary of heresies.".
599			_aRecords created from non-MARC resource.
650			_aChristianity.
650			_aChurch controversies.
650			_aChurch history _yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
650			_aHeresies _xHistory. _xChristian
650			_aPersecution _xHistory _yEarly church, ca. 30-600.
710			_aSIRS Publishing, Inc. _tSIRS Enduring Issues 2002. _pInstitutions., _x1522-3256.
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