The Rise Of Christianity

The positive influence of Christianity is far reaching especially in the rich history and culture of Western Civilization despite a long standing ignorance or adamant denial of its contributions. The Bible itself is responsible for much of the language, literature, and fine arts we enjoy today as its artists and composers were heavily influenced by its writings. Paul Maier, in writing the forward to the book How Christianity Changed the World by Alvin J. Schmidt, says this about the profound impact Christianity has had on the development of Western Civilization:

Christianity was born and flourished in an empire where the common language was Latin and Greek. Two important people like Paul and Constantine further influenced and were a major part of the development of Christianity. The history of the Jews leading up to the time of Jesus had a major impact on the development of Christianity. “When Christianity was clearly identified as a distant religion, the new religion was considered by its members to be the fulfillment of Judaism rather than a new religion.” “Since Jesus was a Jew and preached to the Jews, Christianity was closely linked to Judaism.” The development of Christianity was due to several historical, political, and social circumstances.

The twentieth century was a time of great flux and anxiety in Europe as the supremacy of Christianity in Europe was being challenged by the fronts of biblical criticism, and evolution. According to Rev, Andrew Greeley, a social sciences professor at the University of Chicago, belief in God has increased in Russia and Hungary and decreased in Britain, the Netherlands, western Germany and France. Atheism thrives in eastern Germany, Russia, The Czech Republic and France. Interestingly though, most European countries report denominational affiliation.

Have you ever wondered how Christianity was spread in the early stages? and what influenced it? Rome held a huge part in both of these things. The Roman emperors, culture, and the Roman religion all were things that influenced early Christianity very much.

The Roman Empire was constructed by a diversity of religions and people. One religion named Christianity was created in the Roman Empire by a man named Jesus. Various Christians aided the spread of their religion through missionaries and emperors. These Christian people sought to share and expand Christianity throughout the world. Within the end of the first century of the Common Era, Christianity was in almost all major cities of the Roman Empire. The main spread of Christianity through the Roman Empire was the significance of the founders and contributors of the religion. However, the beginning of Christianity’s life was not so spontaneous.

After close examination of the historical article provided, this document appears to be a letter containing a firsthand account relating the procedures of the interrogation and persecution of Christians during the spread of early Christianity. The author addresses the recipient of the letter by proclaiming, “my lord” and further referring to his lord as his authority throughout the remaining four paragraphs through the use of second person such as “you,” “your name,” and “your instructions” (1, 3-5).

Pauline Christianity spread and ultimately became a center of power and influence within the late Western Roman Empire because it turned Christianity into a universal religion that had good values, a human leader, and was easily accessible to any ethnic group in the Empire. Christianity is believed to have been started by Joshua of Nazareth also known as Jesus Christ. As Jesus began to gain followers, he started to draw attention from Roman Authorities. When Pontius a new Roman governor learned of Jesus and his message, he decided that he was a political criminal and had him crucified. This attempt to stop the spread of Christianity was a failure, and the stories of Jesus’s death spread.

Since the 1st century, many religions have been born and developed throughout time. One of the more notable and successful religions, Christianity, played a big role in the development of the Roman Empire, and gained popularity and recognition as it started to spread across the globe. But how or why did this religion change as it entered a new area and interacted with new people?

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.

The whole issue of Christianity begins with the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. This large character leaves an infinite number of lessons to be entrusted to the Apostles for preach and teach the people. This whole process is going to have much success and also is going to have their lowest, as being the persecutions, who did not cease to Christians to practice their religion freely. During all these sufferings also appear characters with power, which defend Christians and at the end were to succeed in overcoming and completely eliminate the persecution against them. Then appear Christian authorities that cause the Christianity is considered as the official religion of the empire.

It is never enough for a student of theology to receive historical narratives of contexts that speak about the evil and corruption of humankind, at the same it is important for the student as well as the reader of this paper to be reminded how meaningful it is to read into the culture of certain people with respect to history and culture of their time. This week’s readings present a historical overview of Christianity in the U.S., beginning from 1942 until the present. I intend to draw parallels from Zinn (Chapter1) and Stone (Chapter 6) making a claim that the humankind to this day continues to crucificy Christ in every day contexts, whether it be culture or politics.

Throughout history, Christianity always had a reputation, or a “name” following it. Different perspectives approached the reputation that was attached to Christianity in different manners. Justin Martyr and Porphyry had objectives when defining whether this “name” really defined Christianity and the past. They wondered whether the past really represented Christianity. Additionally they honed in on the question of was the past that people represented as Christianity really the roots of Christianity? All around Porphyry and Justin was perceptions of what Christianity rooted from and stood for.

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.

Christianity appeal of an all powerful being, God, that was loving and forgiving that was presented to the people who sought a higher power. Founded by Jesus of Nazareth, who was then called the Son of God by all of his followers because it was said that his mother, Mary, had been a virgin when she became pregnant with him which led many to believe he was in fact the Son of God. Jesus began to preach about to heavenly paradise and eternal happiness as long as people devote their lives to God and live their life with morality. As he rose to religious fame, the Roman Empire feared his religious influence and sentence him to death. With a price on his head, Jesus and his disciples went on the run, still preaching the gospel. Jesus always had stressed to his followers love and acceptance. This brought many more followers to his side but it also brought many who feared and despised him. That loud majority who hated him finally were able to condemn him to death and he was

One influential cult was based upon a mystical interpretation of Plato. Neo-Platonism was like a rational science that attempted to break down and describe every aspect of the divine essence and its relationship with the human soul. An Alexandrian Jew named Philo tried using Greek philosophy to interpret the Jewish scriptures. He wanted to unite the two traditions by suggesting that the Greek philosophers had been inspired by the same God who had revealed himself to the Jews.