History of Christianity
The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, Christian countries, and the Christians with their various denominations, from the 1st century to the present. Christianity originated with the ministry of Jesus, a Jewish teacher and healer who proclaimed the imminent Kingdom of God and was crucified c. AD 30–33 in Jerusalem in the Roman province of Judea.[1] His followers believe that, according to the Gospels, he was the Son of God and that he died for the forgiveness of sins and was raised from the dead and exalted by God, and will return soon at the inception of God's kingdom.[1]
The earliest followers of Jesus were apocalyptic Jewish Christians.[1] The inclusion of Gentiles in the developing early Christian Church caused the separation of early Christianity from Judaism during the first two centuries of the Christian era.[2] In 313, the Roman Emperor Constantine I issued the Edict of Milan legalizing Christian worship.[3] In 380, with the Edict of Thessalonica put forth under Theodosius I, the Roman Empire officially adopted Trinitarian Christianity as its state religion, and Christianity established itself as a predominantly Roman religion in the state church of the Roman Empire.[4] Various Christological debates about the human and divine nature of Jesus consumed the Christian Church for three centuries, and seven ecumenical councils were called to resolve these debates.[5] Arianism was condemned at the First Council of Nicea (325), which supported the Trinitarian doctrine as expounded in the Nicene Creed.[5]
In the Early Middle Ages, missionary activities spread Christianity towards the west and the north among Germanic peoples;[6] towards the east among Armenians, Georgians, and Slavic peoples;[7] in the Middle East among Syrians and Egyptians;[8] in Eastern Africa among the Ethiopians;[9] and further into Central Asia, China, and India.[10] During the High Middle Ages, Eastern and Western Christianity grew apart, leading to the East–West Schism of 1054. Growing criticism of the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical structure and its corruption led to the Protestant Reformation and its related reform movements in the 15th and 16th centuries, which concluded with the European wars of religion that set off the split of Western Christianity. Since the Renaissance era, with the European colonization of the Americas and other continents actively instigated by the Christian churches,[11][12][13][14] Christianity has expanded throughout the world.[15] Today, there are more than two billion Christians worldwide[16] and Christianity has become the world's largest religion.[17] Within the last century, as the influence of Christianity has progressively waned in the Western world, Christianity continues to be the predominant religion in Europe (including Russia) and the Americas, and has rapidly grown in Asia as well as in the Global South and Third World countries, most notably in Latin America, China, South Korea, and much of Sub-Saharan Africa.
History of Christianity - Wikipedia
See also
- Christian anarchism
- Christian communism
- Christian fascism
- Christian pacifism
- Christian socialism
- Christianity and Islam
- Christianity and Judaism
- Christianity and other religions
- Christianity and Paganism
- Christianity and Neoplatonism
- Christianity and violence
- Christianization
- Criticism of Christianity
- History of Christian theology
- History of the Eastern Orthodox Church
- History of Oriental Orthodoxy
- History of Protestantism
- History of the Catholic Church
- List of Christian denominations
- Persecution of Christians
- Rise of Christianity during the Fall of Rome
- Role of the Christian Church in civilization
- Timeline of Christian missions
- Timeline of Christianity
- Timeline of the Roman Catholic Church
- ลัทธิอนาธิปไตยของคริสเตียน
- ลัทธิคอมมิวนิสต์
- ลัทธิฟาสซิสต์คริสเตียน
- สันติสุขแบบคริสเตียน
- สังคมนิยมคริสเตียน
- คริสต์และอิสลาม
- ศาสนาคริสต์และยูดาย
- ศาสนาคริสต์และศาสนาอื่นๆ
- ศาสนาคริสต์และลัทธินอกรีต
- ศาสนาคริสต์และ Neoplatonism
- ศาสนาคริสต์กับความรุนแรง
- คริสต์ศาสนิกชน
- คำติชมของศาสนาคริสต์
- ประวัติศาสนศาสตร์คริสเตียน
- ประวัติคริสตจักรอีสเทิร์นออร์โธดอกซ์
- ประวัติศาสตร์ออร์โธดอกซ์ตะวันออก
- ประวัติศาสตร์โปรเตสแตนต์
- ประวัติคริสตจักรคาทอลิก
- รายชื่อนิกายคริสเตียน
- รายชื่อขบวนการคริสเตียน
- ลัทธิมณเฑียร
- การข่มเหงคริสเตียน
- การเพิ่มขึ้นของศาสนาคริสต์ในช่วงการล่มสลายของกรุงโรม
- บทบาทของคริสตจักรในอารยธรรม
- เส้นเวลาของภารกิจคริสเตียน
- เส้นเวลาของศาสนาคริสต์
- เส้นเวลาของนิกายโรมันคาธอลิก
0 Comments :
Post a Comment