'To fully understand the deep roots of today’s white Christian nationalism, we need to go back at least to 1493," writes Robert P. Jones.

The roots of white supremacy are based in a 15th century Christian doctrine author of, “The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy, and the Path to a Shared American Future,” Robert P. Jones says.

Papal bulls written in the 15th century granted Catholic kings permission to colonize non-Christian lands and enslave Indigenous Peoples. Will Pope Francis formally rescind those decrees during ...

Origins of the Doctrine of Discovery. The doctrine has its roots in the early days of the Age of Exploration. Throughout the 15th century, the Roman Catholic Church responded to European Catholic ...

From the late 15th century, Kongo rulers like King Nzinga a Nkuwu (João I) ... Forced Migration and Diasporic Christianity (15th–19th Centuries) Transatlantic Slave Trade.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the theories backed by 15th-century “papal bulls” that ...

But despite the high price, Huntington’s 15th-century Bible was incomplete. In 1825, an auctioneer had removed three devotional prints contained within the Bible’s pages since the 1450s to ...

A 15th-Century Print Is Reunited With the Gutenberg Bible It Once Accompanied. The print was removed from the bible and auctioned off 200 years ago. Gutenberg Bible, ca. 1455–1500.