Christendom

THE NEXT CHRISTENDOM BY PHILIP JENKINS A SUMMARY AND RESPONSE Kyle Sutton Engaging Reformation and Modern Christianity CH503-XD December 16, 2011 In the preface, Dr. Philip Jenkins clearly states his thesis for The Next Christendom, “Far from being an export of the capitalist West, a vestige of Euro-American imperialism, Christianity is now rooted in the Third World, and the religion’s future lies in the global South”.[1] The distinctions of global North and global South describe the groupings

In Mark Greengrass’s Christendom Destroyed, Greengrass looks at how Christianity has changed throughout Europe. This change was a direct result of Martin Luther, the Ottoman Empire as well as different rulers throughout Europe. Christianity was going through something that they had never saw before with this change. Different rulers with different philosophies contested some of the churches believes as well as the questioning by Martin Luther. With this church was forced to change due, this change

Europe or America. The religion of Islam is expanding quickly and will soon dominate Christianity. These are all common claims made about Christianity that many people believe, yet Philip Jenkins claims and proves them untrue in his book, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. According to his book, Christianity is moving out of the global north and into the global south. In fact, Christianity is growing rapidly in countries such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He also writes about

In the chapter “the legal position of Jews in Christendom,” Mark Cohen argues that the Jews did not have rights under the Jewry law which was enacted by Christians. The Jewry law was complex because it was enacted from different sources and changed over time. The Jewry Law was part of the Theodosian Code, which mixed the tolerations and restrictions. Some laws in the Theodosian code showed that the Jewish people were protected against the wanton assault. Later, under the Pope Gregory’s regulation

Although today one might recognize Christendom as having three main sects, this is not entirely true. Within each mainstream denomination, there are countless subsects, each with their own distinctive beliefs and practices. If one attempted to unite the all the groups, they would find it incredibly difficult. Originally, Christendom was made of of one mainstream sect, Roman Catholicism, and other sects united under its main ideas. In 1054, relations between the East and the West Church rapidly deteriorated

in land territory, there was a growing need to find a point of unification for the cultural melting pots that submersed society. Religion was used for such task at one point, but as division began to increase in religious societies like Latin Christendom, higher education became the second chance at unifying a nation. Charlemagne who sought to unify the land under one right religion, proudly supported and closely allied with the spread of education of the one true faith through education. Charlemagne

and viewed with increasing suspicion throughout the period. Jews were labeled as such, and were persecuted similarly to heretics and lepers, although there were differences in how each of these groups were treated, and viewed, by society. Latin Christendom dominated Western Medieval Europe, and the growth of ‘modern’ European sensibilities influenced the Church’s power. Membership of society at the time came hand-in-hand with baptism, so those who practiced other religions or simply refused to conform

Christians Have Same Beliefs Another point that supports the argument is that Christians all have the same basic beliefs, that there is one God and they all believe in Jesus and his teachings, and they only argue on the way of worshiping him if the different dominations were to come together they would find out they have more things in common than they don't, as this is a known fact it shows the unity

A broken Latin Christendom occurred with the rejection of all papal authority by many kingdoms and this took place all because protestants rejected the special, sacerdotal, or supernatural character of the priesthood (Norton, p. 91). What began with the emergence of much unhappiness with the clergy, by all classes of society, turned into a full scaled revolt triggering countries to pick sides in this religious revolution. With individuals, such as Lutheran, Calvin, and Leyden calling for a complete

are increasing signs that the Europe defined by the author which established out of brutal communities mainly by English and Irish monks, was continued by Benedictine religious foundation in the early millennium, succeeded into what we know as "Christendom" in the beginning of the second millennium, and move into a gradual 500 year succession resulting the great crack-up of European Christian agreement starting in 1517 now looked like it was headed for elimination due to demographic inflexibility