Thus already, at ten years old, the boy found himself standing face to face with a dilemma that might have puzzled an early Christian. What was he? - where was he going? Even then he felt that something was wrong, but he concluded that it must be Boston. Henry Adams
What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was. Elaine Pagels
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world. N.T. Wright
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last. George Bernard Shaw
Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity or harmony of disposition only. Joseph Priestley
I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement had been left out. Elaine Pagels