Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

The Early Church Fathers wrote that Luke was a physician in Antioch and an adherent of the Apostle Paul.

She was thus a principal agent — almost an embodiment — of the work of the Catholic Church during the Early Middle Ages in the construction of the religion-culture of western Europe.

*" Writings of the Early Church Fathers on Baptism "

Early in the year 1928 a second Measure ( known as the Prayer Book Measure 1928 ) was introduced in the Church Assembly, proposing to authorise the use of the Deposited Book of the previous year with certain amendments thereto which were set out in a Schedule to Measure.

There were many diverse Christian communities with wildly different Christologies, eschatologies, soteriologies, and cosmologies that existed alongside the " Early Church " which is itself a projected concept to indicate which communities were " proto-orthodox ," in that their views would become dominate.

* Gonzalez, Justo L. The Story of Christianity: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation, Harper Collins Publishers, New York ( 1984 ).

* Annotated Early History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( BOAP, 2000 )

The Apostolic Canons or Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles is a collection of ancient ecclesiastical decrees ( eighty-five in the Eastern, fifty in the Western Church ) concerning the government and discipline of the Early Christian Church, incorporated with the Apostolic Constitutions which are part of the Ante-Nicene Fathers

The History of Teachings of the Early Church, As a Basis for the Re-Union of Christendom ; Lectures.

The Chronicle of St. Jerome, in Early Church Fathers: Additional Texts.

* Early Church Fathers Includes text written by Cyril of Alexandria

* Early Church Fathers: Cyril of Alexandria

* This article only considers the mainstream Christian views, in contrast to, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Adventism, Early Christianity, Nontrinitarianism and others.

Although its canonical status was contested, its authenticity was never doubted by the Early Church.

The Chronicle of St. Jerome, in Early Church Fathers: Additional Texts.

The Early Church Fathers including Tertullian, Jerome, and Augustine state the Greek word is ambiguous and the women in 1 Corinthians 9: 5 were women ministering to the Apostles as women ministered to Christ ( cf Matthew 27: 55, Luke 8: 1-3 ), and were not wives, and assert they left their " offices of marriage " to follow Christ and to preach.

The existence of a highly treasured dominical sayings document in circulation going totally unmentioned by the Fathers of the Early Church, remains one of the great conundrums of Modern Biblical Scholarship.

Early Church Fathers.

In the Early Church those who presided over congregations were referred to variously as episcopos ( bishop ) or presbyteros ( priest ).

Early Christianity may be divided into 2 distinct phases: the apostolic period, when the first apostles were alive and led the Church, and the post-apostolic period, when an early episcopal structure developed, and persecution was periodically intense.

The doctrines of the apostles brought the Early Church into conflict with some Jewish religious authorities.

Though the Early Church used the Old Testament according to the canon of the Septuagint ( LXX ), the apostles did not otherwise leave a defined set of new scriptures ; instead the New Testament developed over time.

Cyprian () ( died September 14, 258 ) was bishop of Carthage and an important Early Christian writer, many of whose Latin works are extant.

Early church lists place him as the second or third bishop of Rome after Saint Peter.

The Early Christian purpose-built basilica was the cathedral basilica of the bishop, on the model of the semi-public secular basilicas, and its growth in size and importance signalled the gradual transfer of civic power into episcopal hands, which was under way in the 5th century.

Additionally, Protestant Evangelicals concede that although the Early Church had not completely " fallen away " after the death of the first Apostles, it fell under the control of the bishop of Rome and became governed by errant men with a poor understanding of Scripture.

Early in 360 he became bishop of Antioch, succeeding Eudoxius, who had been translated to the see of Constantinople.

Melito of Sardis ( died c. 180 ) was the bishop of Sardis near Smyrna in western Anatolia, and a great authority in Early Christianity: Jerome, speaking of the Old Testament canon established by Melito, quotes Tertullian to the effect that he was esteemed a prophet by many of the faithful.

The Early Church structure generally followed the Roman imperial practice, with one bishop ruling each city and its territory.

Early church lists place him as the second or third or as possibly the immediate successor of Saint Peter as bishop of Rome, although another very recent source states that " there is no evidence for monarchical episcopacy in Rome at so early a date ".

These structures were certainly formalized well before the end of the Early Christian period, which concluded with the legalization of Christianity by Constantine's Edict of Milan in 313 and the holding of the First Council of Nicea in 325, when the title of Metropolitan bishop first appears.

About 370, an Early Christian basilica was built on the remains of a Jupiter temple and Lauriacum was the see of a bishop until 488.

They deal mostly with the office and duties of a Christian bishop, the qualifications and conduct of the clergy, the religious life of the Christian flock ( abstinence, fasting ), its external administration ( excommunication, synods, relations with pagans and Jews ), the sacraments ( Baptism, Eucharist, Marriage ); in a word, they are a handy summary of the statutory legislation of the Early Church.

Early in his reign he detained the Coptic bishop Abba Yeshaq, who had passed through Sennar on his way to Ethiopia.

In the Early Middle Ages it was under the authority of the bishop of Como, followed by the city of Como.

Early in 1939, Odilo Globocnik, the Gauleiter of Vienna, established SS headquarters for all of Poland.

But for all his erudite confidence, Sergeant Early was right out of the Garryowen mold.

Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism.

According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

Early Buddhist philosophers and exegetes of the Sarvāstivādins created a pluralist metaphysical and phenomenological system, in which all experiences of people, things and events can be broken down into smaller and smaller perceptual or perceptual-ontological units called " dharmas ".

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

One of the main theses of casuists was the necessity to adapt the rigorous morals of the Early Fathers of Christianity to modern morals, which led in some extreme cases to justify what Innocent XI later called " laxist moral " ( i. e. justification of usury, homicide, regicide, lying through " mental reservation ", adultery and loss of virginity before marriage, etc .— all due cases registered by Pascal in the Provincial Letters ).

On TV shows based in Chicago such as The Bob Newhart Show, Married ... with Children, Family Matters, Still Standing, According to Jim, Early Edition and The Bernie Mac Show, the main characters are all Bears fans, and have worn Bears ' jerseys and t-shirts on some occasions.

Paul hopes that all of Israel will come to realize the truth since he himself was also an Israelite, and had in the past been a persecutor of Early Christians.

Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Baroque.

Early in their careers they had all worked at the same time at the Palazzo Barberini, initially under Carlo Maderno and on his death, under Bernini.

Early in Classical Greece, that the earth is a sphere (" round "), was generally known by all, and around 240 BCE, Eratosthenes ( 276 BCE – 194 BCE ) accurately estimated its circumference.

Early labyrinths in India all follow the Classical pattern ; some have been described as plans of forts or cities.

Early, most logical positivists proposed that all knowledge is based on logical inference from simple " protocol sentences " grounded in observable facts.

Early Methodists were drawn from all levels of society, including the aristocracy, but the Methodist preachers took the message to labourers and criminals who tended to be left outside organized religion at that time.

Thus, while there was a good measure of debate in the Early Church over the New Testament canon, the major writings are claimed to have been accepted by almost all Christians by the middle of the 3rd century.

Early maps do not, however, actually show a settlement called " Jamestown ", only " Morton's Bay ", and later maps show that all that was left of Jamestown / Morton's Bay in 1818 was a building labelled " Pleasure House ".

Early Islamic philosophy emphasized an inexorable link between science and religion, and the process of ijtihad to find truth-in effect all philosophy was " political " as it had real implications for governance.

" The Early medieval Codex Argenteus and Codex Vercellensis, the Stockholm Codex Aureus and the Codex Brixianus give a range of luxuriously produced manuscripts all on purple vellum, in imitation of Byzantine examples, like the Rossano Gospels, Sinope Gospels and the Vienna Genesis, which at least at one time are believed to have been reserved for Imperial commissions.

Early New England laws banning the sale of alcohol to Native Americans were criticized because it was “ not fit to deprive Indians of any lawfull comfort aloweth to all men by the use of wine .” Laws banned the practice of individuals toasting each other, with the explanation that it led to wasting God's gift of beer and wine, as well as being carnal.

Early in the 1960 season, Clemente accumulated 25 runs batted in ( RBIs ) in 27 games in May and finished the month at. 353 to lead all National League batters.

Early radical feminism, arising within second-wave feminism in the 1960s, typically viewed patriarchy as a " transhistorical phenomenon " prior to or deeper than other sources of oppression, " not only the oldest and most universal form of domination but the primary form " and the model for all others.

* Early in his career, he hit 100 runs against the West Indies in 78 minutes, the third fastest Test century of all time ( in terms of minutes at the crease, not balls faced ) and the second fastest by an Australian.

Viking, Arab, Greek and Jewish merchants ( known as Radhanites ) were all involved in the slave trade during the Early Middle Ages.

Early switchboards in large cities usually were mounted floor to ceiling in order to allow the operators to reach all the lines in the exchange.