1.    Enable a global view, geographical and temporally situated, of the origins of Christianity from the 1st to the 5th century
2.    Provide a critical approach to the social world of the early christians in the mutant relationship with political power
3.    To problematize the christianity as a producer of thought and culture
4.    Provide a contextual basis of analysis that allows articulating several curricular units of the study plan (Christology, Patristics, Ecclesiology…)
5.    Develop an attitude of questioning proper to History about christianity of the first centuries.
6.    To reflect the christian experience as a process in context
7.    To awareness of the importance of the sources for the historical reconstruction
8.    To familiarize the student with the bibliography and specialized work tools
9.    Give interpretative tools and horizons for the meeting with relevant authors of this epoch
10.    To exercise research skills (bibliographic research, reading, conceptual domain…)