The 230s: Two Centuries of Church History

Published: June 5, 2005, 7:04 pm

Posted on Radagast's Church History Project [Australian Capital Territory]: Two hundred years after the Resurrection, Christianity had grown in spite of further persecution. Urban was Bishop of Rome, but died on 22 August of 230, and was replaced by Pontian. Demetrius had been Bishop of Alexandria since 189, and Origen was teaching at the school for Christian instruction there. Alexander was Bishop of Jerusalem, where he had established a library. Since the 130s, extensive theological writings by Justin, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Tertullian had articulated the orthodox Christian point of view, in the face of Gnosticism and heretical forms of Christianity. The exact composition of the New Testament was not yet fixed: all Christians agreed on the four Gospels, Acts, and the Pauline Epistles, and most Christians also agreed on Hebrews, Revelation, I Peter, I John, and Jude. There was less agreement on II Peter, II John, III John, and James, and some

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