How Did Christianity Dominate Germany

Through a series of events, Charles Magnus the Great became well known by the French version of his name, Charlemagne. Charlemagne was famous for his aggressive spirit, accessibility, and an efficient manager. Most of all, there was no denial that during his reign, Charlemagne was “Champion of Christianity” (McClintock, 220-222). The leadership of Charlemagne began in a controversial period during the rise of Christianity. Before Charlemagne's time, the Roman Empire fell, causing the division of Western Europe into kingdoms, including the Franks. The Franks were a group of Germanic peoples, unruly barbarians, from lowlands east and north of the Roman Empire that outlasted predictions of a short kingdom (McKay, 227). After the division, the people faced conflicts and confusion and searched for unity and order. Christianity spread rapidly and met the needs of the people who had once been part of Rome and her empire (Spielvogel, 361). Christianity, even with all of the hardships, spread throughout Britain between A.D. 325 and A.D. 600. Over time, people from every class were tired of war and feared the empire’s end. Thus, they were drawn to admire Christians and their faith (Spielvogel, 354). Charles the Great, son of King Pepin of the Franks, began his throne after the death of his father (r. 768-814). During his rule, Charlemagne not only achieved many accomplishments, but he also was the reason Christianity grew across Eastern and

When Jesus of Nazareth (4/6 BCE - 30/36 CE) began to teach his new ideas about love, compassion, and equality, nobody would have thought that it would become the foundation of a major world religion. This was radically different compared to Roman beliefs, but it eventually became the main religion in Rome. His apostles, especially Paul, helped to spread his ideas and began the religion of Christianity. It helped to shape Western civilization, partly because of its huge influence on Rome.

When the woman gets married, she will knot the apron. German men used to wear leather trousers, known as "lederhosen." Men now reserve lederhosen for formal or traditional events such as weddings or folk festivals. Germans have different types of money than we do. They have what is called Euros. It takes 0.92 euros to make one american dollar. Germans had a few different religions. Some examples of German religion is Christianity is the largest religion in Germany The second largest religion is Islam, Smaller religious groups (less than 1%) include Judaism, Buddhism and

Western Europe went through a lot changes through the 8th and 14th century it was the rise of the medieval culture.The Church started to gain power as Christianity started to gain popularity throughout all over Western Europe. Christianity had a lot of influence on the development of Romanesque and Gothic culture, as they took a lot of the ideas from Christianity and implemented it into theirs. As Western Europe went through all these different events the religious and political aspects started to change as well. The Church started to gain a lot of power as death was spreading all over Europe, people started to worry where their soul would go after their death. In the beginning of medieval Europe the aristocrats had a lot of the power while

The world that is known today is nothing like its former self. Never the less, everything had to start somehow. 500AD was a time of decline, separation, and the time for conquerors to emerge. Empires fell, religions grew, and science advanced. In the fifth century, religion, culture, politics, economics, education, society, and technology were all intertwined. Each one effects each other with conflicts or growth.

The Liberal Nationalism that became the majority in Germany due to universal suffrage under Bismarck during the late 19th century witnessed a Kulturkampf. Kulturkampf, or a, “struggle over culture” emerged between the Protestant Liberal Nationalists and the Roman Catholic Church. Liberals associated Catholics with the Pope in Rome, and felt that they did not think for themselves, were backwards, undemocratic, and did the Pope’s bidding. Liberals also attributed Catholics with the absolute rule of monarchies. The Liberals alongside Prime Minister Otto Von Bismarck worked to limit the Catholic clergy’s influence in schools. Through the process of “Germanization” a German nationalist mission to remake Catholics in their own eye began soon

Rome was a great civilization with many contributions to modern day culture. The Roman Empire was a very strong and elite empire for its time. It had many considerable victories and historical moments while it was supreme, but nothing good can stay. Rome in the early third century encountered many difficulties that suspended them from growing as a culture and country. Some would say the rise of Christianity and invading foreigners caused the fall of Rome, but they are wrong. A failing economy and Rome’s favoring for foreign soldiers were just two reasons Rome’s Western Empire met its demise.

The moment that tension first blossomed between Catholics and Protestants in Germany can be traced back to 1517, when a disillusioned priest first nailed his 95 theses to a church door. The Thirty Years’ War that resulted was fought to resolve this religious tension, but only bitter compromise was found at the war’s end. In the centuries that followed, relations between the two religions vacillated from civil to hostile within, and between, each German state. When unification appeared to be a distinct possibility around 1870, the dominant German state, Prussia, searched for possible solutions to this three-hundred year old hostility in such a way that would strengthen the new empire rather than hinder it. The answer came in the form

The rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, was by far not a simple one. The Roman Empire was generally quite tolerant in the treatment of other religions. So why did they persecute the Christians, and how did this all begin? These persecutions mainly started in 64 A.D when a great fire broke out under the rule of Emperor Nero. In order to deflect the public 's opinion on him, he blamed the Christians and this blame then allowed, and paved way for the aggressive persecutions of Christians in the Roman Empire for the next two centuries. After Nero, the first imperial persecutor, then comes in the age of Trajan (98-117 A.D.). After receiving a letter from Pliny the Younger, the governor of Bithynia in the north of Asia Minor, to the Emperor Trajan, tells us about the view and executions of Christians in his province. This primary source holds to be very valuable when researching the relationship the Pagan Romans had with the Christians. All throughout the history of the Roman Empire, Christians have been persecuted and treated terribly due to the view of them as mysterious or “unknown”. The view of the Christians was mainly due to the ethnocentrism that went on in Rome during this time. Persecution was inevitable for these Christians and went on for centuries. The accusations they received were that they were atheists, cannibals, practiced incest, and all together these accusations showed how misunderstood the Christians really were. As a result of Trajan’s laws on the

The spread of Christianity began in a rural part of Rome. Bishops and popes of Rome began to gain authority, and dealt in politics as well as religion. Since there was no separation of church and state, those in power at the time had a great influence over peoples “decision” in faith. Although there was an obvious bias in religion, people took to Christianity, they were attracted to the idea that there was a real person, with teachings, as opposed to other religious which had more obvious fiction and mythical stories. Rapid spread of Christianity in Europe was also partly due to advance Roman road system, helping the missionaries travel fast. During the Middle Ages missionaries established outpost far from cities, providing refuge for people.

In the 1st century C.E the religion of Christianity was formed from the life, death, and resurrection of its saviour Jesus Christ in 33 C.E. Christianity emerged in the Middle East which at the time was called the Greco-Roman world because the Jews were under the control of Greeks and then the Roman Empire. At that time in the Middle East the most prominent religion was Judaism, they believed in the coming of their Messiah. Many of the Jews in the early formation of the Church believed that Jesus was their Messiah and converted to the newly formed Christianity. However many of them did not believe Jesus fulfilled the messianic prophecies and did not convert. The newly found religion would soon have a schism separating it into five main denominations. One of these Denominations is called Catholicism. Catholicism spread in the Roman Empire despite is conflicts with the pagan State Religion of the Roman Empire. These early Christians were severely persecuted by Roman Emperors such as Nero, Decius and Claudius. The persecution and suppressing of the Catholic Church stopped in 313 C.E after the Edict of Milan which legalized Christianity and finally a few years later in 380 C.E it became the state religion of Rome, marking the beginning of the Catholic Church.

After Jesus was born, he came with a new religion known as Christianity. Christianity focus on the laws and elements that called for the inner transformation of a person (Jackson & McTighe, 2013). Although this new religion came with great happiness, suffering also came along. The rise of Christianity effected history in many different ways including, Leaders, Roman religion, and.

Germans along with Americans have the same freedoms when it comes to religion. The biggest difference is that Germans allow a church-state affiliation. German states even allowed to apply taxes on the church (Henkel, 2006).

The Germany’s dominating religion is Protestantism Christianity, in which Martin Luther famous for his theologian philosophies came into picture and made the Protestantism spread greatly across the Europe. Although there are more less split between the mainstream domination of Lutheran-Protestantism, Calvinism and Roman Catholic, but overall the Germany is being dominated by the Protestantism Christianity. France Protestantism has a long history in its country. It produced one of the major figures of the Reformation in John Calvin, and in the late 1590s it very nearly had a Protestant king. The French Protestants, known as Huguenots, were very strong, at one point controlling two hundred towns, mainly in southern France. Huguenot influence was waning and it was evident that France would remain Catholic. This did not prevent the country from siding Protestant powers during the Thirty Years War, but such alliances were purely political. As with other countries, the French endured decades of religious warfare and slowly learned to keep matters of religion from influencing too heavily matters of state.

The single most important aspect of European empires, beginning just prior to the fall of Rome, is the spread of Christianity to all areas of the continent in as little as a few hundred years. Many theologians state that Christianities spread is the indirect influence of God and the adoration of people to one true faith. Though it is true that Christianity has brought about people that even atheists could call saints, it is unquestionable that Christianity was so monumental because it united larger groups of people and its spread is contributed to adherence to local customs and its lack of new ideas in comparison to other religions of the day.