EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT A CHRISTIAN BLOG

 

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Introduction

Christianity is one of the largest religions of the world. It has lasted for almost two thousand years. The universal calendar began since the supposed birth of Jesus Christ, about two thousand years ago. Christianity has played a vital role in shaping the history of mankind since these last two thousand years. It is undoubtedly the principal religion of the western world and has strong influences on the East as well. Currently, there are about two billion people in the world who follow the faith of Christianity. It teaches the principles of love, peace, endurance, sacrifice, restraint, humility and equality.

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Christianity started gaining popularity during the end of the Roman Empire. The first Christians were all Jewish by ethnicity. However, at this time, the Christians had to face a lot of persecution as they were considered heretics by the pagan citizens of the Roman Empire. Emperor Nero blamed the Christians for the Great Fire of Rome. They were isolated and oppressed. However, things changed when the Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity and made it the official religion of the Roman Empire. He is known as the “First Christian Emperor” in history. Christianity slowly eclipsed the classical pagan religion and its pantheon of Gods and Goddesses. The Roman Catholic Church was thus established. Rome thus became a Christian Orthodox Empire.

As the world progressed towards the Middle Ages, Christianity continued to gain more and more followers and patrons who either were powerful rulers or people with great military and financial influence. Christian missionaries were sent to the Germanic kingdoms, the Celtic regions (currently Scotland, Ireland, and Wales). These missionaries were largely successful in converting the pagan population and their rulers to the Christian faith. Christianity was established as the main faith of Europe.

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However, there was dissension between the eastern and western part of the Christendom, which became prominent by the fourth century A.D. There were constant political, linguistic and ideological clashes between Rome and Constantinople. The dominance of Islam along the Mediterranean regions, the sack of Constantinople and the ultimate fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Turks are few of the factors that prompted the Crusades. The Crusades were a series of military campaigns aimed to establish Christian influence over the Middle East as well as for commercial and military purposes.

With the late Middle Ages, Renaissance was brought into Europe that led to the Reformation Movement, led by Martin Luther King, which spread to the whole Europe. This led to the rise of the Protestant sect, a sect that emphasized on the spiritual rather than papacy. The segregation of England from the Roman Catholic Church was also a huge event in Christian history. In the early-modern ages, Colonization has contributed a lot to the expansion of Christianity among the Asian and African countries.

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