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The history of Christianity follows the Christian religion as it developed from its earliest beliefs and practices in the first century, spread geographically in the Roman Empire and beyond, and became a global religion in the twenty-first century.

Christianity originated with the

Little is fully known of Christianity in its first 150 years. Sources are few.[7] This and other complications have limited scholars to probable rather than provable conclusions, based largely on the biblical book of Acts, whose historicity is debated as much as it is accepted.^[8][9]

According to the

From its beginnings, the Christian church has seen itself as having a dual purpose: first, to fully live out its faith, and second, to pass it on, making Christianity a 'missionary' religion from its inception.^[40] Missionary consciousness in the early church was rooted in the belief that followers of Jesus were divinely required to "go tell", "go forth", and "make disciples".^[41] This began with the twelve Apostles, and the Apostle Paul preaching and making multiple trips to found new churches.^[42] Christianity quickly spread geographically and numerically, with interaction sometimes producing conflict, and other times producing converts and accommodation.^[43][44] Driven by a universalist logic, missions are a multi-cultural, often complex, historical process.^[45]

Early geographical spread

Beginning with less than 1000 people, by the year 100, Christianity had grown to perhaps one hundred

Egyptian Christianity probably began in the first century in Alexandria.[55] As it spread, Coptic Christianity developed.^[56] Both Gnosticism and Marcionite Christianity appeared in the second century.^[57] Egyptian Christians produced religious literature more abundantly than any other region during the second and third centuries. The church in Alexandria became as influential as the church in Rome.^[58]

Christianity in Antioch is mentioned in Paul's epistles written before AD 60, and scholars generally see Antioch as a primary center of early Christianity.^[59] It has been argued that Antioch, an early center of apostolic authority, is the most likely location for the writing of the gospel of Matthew and the Didache in the first century.^[60]

Early Christianity was also present in Gaul, however, most of what is known comes from a letter, most likely written by Irenaeus, which theologically interprets the detailed suffering and martyrdom of Christians from Vienne and Lyons during the reign of Marcus Aurelius.^[61] There is no other evidence of Christianity in Gaul, beyond one inscription on a gravestone, until the beginning of the fourth century.^[62]

The origins of Christianity in North Africa are unknown, but most scholars connect it to the Jewish communities of Carthage.^[63] Christians were persecuted in Africa intermittently from 180 until 305.^[64] Persecution under Emperors Decius and Valerian created long-lasting problems for the African church. When those who had recanted tried to rejoin the Church it created the Donatist schism in the fourth century.^[65]

It is likely the Christian message arrived in the city of Rome very early, though it is unknown how or by whom.^[66] The city was a melting pot of ideas, and according to Markus Vinzent, the Church in Rome was "fragmented and subject to repeated internal upheavals ..."^[67] Walter Bauer's thesis that heretical forms of Christianity were brought into line by a powerful, united, Roman church forcing its will on others is not supportable, writes Vinzent, since such unity and power did not exist in Rome before the eighth century.^[68][69][70]

Christianity spread in the Germanic world during the latter part of the third century, beginning among the Goths. It did not originate with the ruling classes.^[71] Christianity probably reached Roman Britain by the third century at the latest.^[71]

From the earliest days of Christianity, there was a Christian presence in

Early Christianity's system of beliefs and morality have been cited as a major factor in its growth.

Christians distributed bread to the hungry, nurtured the sick, and showed the poor great generosity.[84]^[85] Family had previously determined where and how the dead could be buried, but Christians gathered those not related by blood into a common burial space, used the same memorials, and expanded the audience to include others of their community, thereby redefining the meaning of family.^[86][87]

Christianity in its first 300 years was also highly exclusive.^[88] Believing was the crucial and defining characteristic that set a "high boundary" that strongly excluded non-believers.^[88] The exclusivity of Christian monotheism has been cited as a crucial factor in maintaining Christian independence in the syncretizing Roman religious culture.^[89] Many scholars interpreted this exclusivity as an intolerance inherent in Christian belief, though this view has been challenged by modern scholarship.^[90]

The earliest orthodox writers of the first and second centuries, outside the writers of the New Testament itself, were the intellectual and spiritual teachers, leaders and philosophers of early Christianity often called the "church fathers".^[91][92] Writing from the first century to the close of the eighth, they defended their faith, wrote commentaries and sermons, recorded the Creeds and church history, and lived lives that were exemplars of their faith.^[93] These early leaders, such as Justin Martyr (100–165 CE), began using the term "heresy" in the second century.^[94][95] The concept developed as a means of defining theological error, ensuring correct belief and establishing identity.^[95] Tension from universality and diversity made the establishment of boundaries necessary.^[96] In the early centuries, doctrinal variations were regulated by literature that attempted to establish a consensus of common beliefs creating a "unified diversity".^[97]

The modern understanding of freedom of conscience has been cited by some as beginning with Christianity's understanding of freedom to choose one's own religion. Starting with Justin Martyr, freedom of religious conscience is affirmed in the Milan edict of 313.^[98]

Church hierarchy

The Church as an institution began its formation quickly and with some flexibility. The early Christian writings that became the New Testament mention

First century Christian writings in Koine Greek, including Gospels containing accounts of Jesus' ministry, letters of Paul, and letters attributed to other early Christian leaders, had considerable authority even in the formative period, and those seen as "scriptural" were generally agreed upon.^[102][103] For Christians, these became the "New Testament", and the Hebrew Scriptures became the "Old Testament".^[104]

When discussion of

Influence of Constantine in Late Antiquity

Constantine established equal footing for Christian clergy by granting them the same immunities polytheistic priests had long enjoyed.[111] He gave bishops judicial power.^[112] By intervening in church disputes, he initiated a precedent.^[113][114] He wrote laws that favored Christianity,^[115][113] and he personally endowed Christians with gifts of money, land and government positions.^[116][117] Instead of rejecting state authority, bishops were grateful, and this change in attitude proved to be critical to the further growth of the Church.^[112]

Constantine's church building was influential in the spread of Christianity.^[112] He devoted imperial and public funds, endowed his churches with wealth and lands, and provided revenue for their clergy and upkeep.^[118] This led to similar efforts on a local level, leading to the presence of churches in essentially all Roman cities by the late fourth century.^[118]

Synthesis or state religion

Late Roman culture accommodated both Christian and Greco-Roman heritage. Christian intellectuals adapted Greek philosophy and Roman traditions to Christian use.^[119]

Whether Christianity became the official state religion remains controversial. Scholars agree that substantial growth in the third and fourth centuries made Christianity the majority religion by the mid-fourth century. All Roman emperors after Constantine, except Julian, were Christian. Christian emperors wanted the empire to become a Christian empire and used law to favor Christianity and make it difficult to continue polytheist practices.^[120][121] Many scholars have seen such laws as implying the establishment of Christianity as the state religion. However, new explanations of "multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity and group cohesion" have brought this into question.^[122] No legislation forcing the conversion of pagans existed until the reign of Justinian in A.D. 529.^{[123][note 1]}

Relations with polytheists

Christians of the fourth century believed Constantine's conversion was evidence the Christian God had conquered the many polytheist gods in Heaven.^{[136][137][138]} This "triumph of Christianity" became the primary Christian narrative in writings of the late antique age in spite of the fact that Christians represented only ten to fifteen percent of the population in 313. As a minority, triumph did not generally involve an increase in violence aimed at polytheists – with some exceptions.^{[139][140][141]}

In general, there was more violent rhetoric than actual violence.[156] Constantine wrote the first laws against sacrifice using language that "was uniformly vehement" with "frequently horrifying" penalties, evidencing the intent of "terrorizing" the populace into accepting removal of this tradition.^[157] Blood sacrifice, a central rite of virtually all religious groups in the pre-Christian Mediterranean, was the element of pagan culture most abhorrent to Christians.^[158] Altars used for sacrifice were routinely smashed by Christians.^[159] Public sacrifice largely disappeared before the end of the fourth century, though many other pagan practices continued.^{[160][161][162][163]}

Constantine was vigorous in reclaiming confiscated properties for the Church, and he used reclamation to justify the destruction of some Greco-Roman temples such as Aphrodite's temple in Jerusalem. For the most part, Constantine simply neglected them.^{[164][165][166]}

Relations with Jews

In the fourth century, Augustine of Hippo argued against the persecution of the Jewish people. A relative peace existed between Jews and Christians until the thirteenth century.^[167][168] Significant Jewish communities existed throughout the Christian Roman empire, and attitudes varied in different areas.^[169] Jews and Christians were both religious minorities claiming the same inheritance, and competing in a direct and sometimes violent clash.^[169] Although anti-Semitic violence erupted occasionally, attacks on Jews by mobs, local leaders and lower level clergy were carried out without the support of church leaders who generally followed Augustine's teachings.^[170][171]

Sometime before the fifth century, the theology of supersessionism emerged, claiming that Christianity had displaced Judaism as God's chosen people.^[172] Supersessionism was not an official or universally held doctrine, but replacement theology has been part of Christian thought through much of history.^[173][174] Many attribute the emergence of antisemitism to this doctrine while others make a distinction between supersessionism and modern anti-Semitism.^[175][176]

Regional developments (300–600)

Christian monasticism had emerged in the third century, and by the fifth century, was a dominant force in all areas of late antique culture.^[177][178] Monastics developed an unprecedented health care system which allowed the sick to remain within the monastery as a special class afforded special benefits and care by those dedicated to that care.^[179] This destigmatized illness, transformed health care in Antiquity, formed the basis of public health care in the Middle Ages, and led to the development of the hospital.^[180]

Basil the Great was the central monastic figure in the East, founding the first public hospital (the Basiliad) in 369.^[181] In the West, Benedict wrote the Rule of Saint Benedict which would become the most common monastic rule throughout the Middle Ages and the starting point for other monastic rules.^[182]

Eastern and Western Christianity were becoming more and more distinct by the fourth century. The western church spoke Latin, while the East spoke and wrote in at least five other languages. Theological differences became more pronounced. The manner in which each church related to the State differed dramatically.^[183][184] In the Roman west, the church condemned Roman culture as "demonic" and sinful, kept itself as separate as possible, and struggled to resist State control for the next 800 years. This is in pointed contrast with eastern Christianity which acclaimed harmony with Greek culture, and whose emperors and Patriarchs upheld unanimity between church and state.^{[185][186][187][188][note 3]}

Christianity had no central government, and such differences developed in many locations.

The First Council of Nicaea was called by Constantine in (325) to address Arianism and other disagreements. Representatives of some 150 episcopal sees in Asia Minor attended along with many others.^[194] Nicaea and the First Council of Constantinople (381) resulted in a condemnation of Arian teachings and produced the Nicene Creed.^[193][195]

The Third (431), Fourth (451), Fifth (583) and Sixth ecumenical councils (680–681) are characterized by attempts to explain Jesus' human and divine natures as either one or two separate or unified natures.^[196] The category of ‘schism’ developed as a middle ground, so as not to exclude all who disagreed as ‘heretic’.^[197] Schisms within the churches of the Nicene tradition broke out after the Council of Chalcedon in 451 wrote the Chalcedonian Definition that two natures of Christ form one ontological entity.^[191][198]

These theological controversies led to the Armenian, Assyrian, and Egyptian churches withdrawing from Nicaean Catholicism and instead combining into what is today known as

Asian and African Christians did not have access to structures of power, and their institutions developed without state support.[202]^{[note 4]} Practicing the Christian faith in these regions sometimes brought opposition and persecution. Asian Christianity never developed the social, intellectual and political power of Byzantium or the Latin West.^[72] Yet, in 314 King Urnayr of Caucasian Albania adopted Christianity as the state religion. Armenia also adopted Christianity as their state religion in the fourth century,^[205] as did Georgia, Ethiopia and Eritrea.^{[206][207][208]} In an environment where the religious group was without cultural or political power, the merging of church and state is thought to instead represent survival of the ethnic group.^[209]

Some Germanic people adopted Arian Christianity while others, such as the Frankish King Clovis I, (who was the first to unite the Frankish tribes under one ruler), converted to Catholicism.^{[210][211][212][213]} Though dates and details are disputed by a minority, archaeology supports the conversion of the Irish as beginning in the early fifth century.^[214]

Pope Gregory the Great sent a long-distance mission to Anglo-Saxon England.^[71] The Gregorian mission landed in 596, and converted the Kingdom of Kent and the court of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria.^[215] However, archaeology indicates Christianity had become an established minority faith in some parts of Britain in the second century. Irish missionaries went to Iona (from 563) and converted many Picts.^[216][217]

During the fourth and fifth centuries, various Germanic peoples in the West — many of whom had already converted to Christianity — sacked Rome, invaded Britain, France, and Spain, seized land, and disrupted economies. For multiple and various reasons, the Western Roman Empire began to split into separate kingdoms.^[218][219] Events in the Western Roman Empire after 476 had little direct impact on the Eastern Roman Empire centered in Constantinople.^[220] By the time of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (527–565), Constantinople was the largest, most prosperous and powerful city on the Mediterranean.^[221] Justinian attempted to unite East and West by fighting the western tribes, taking territory and control of the Church. From 537 to 752, this meant Roman Popes had to be approved by the Eastern emperor before they could be installed. This required consistency with Eastern policy, such as forcing conversion of pagans, that had not previously been policy in the west.^[222][123]

Early Middle Ages (600–1100)

In the earliest part of this period, Christianity's “nerve centers” remained urban bishoprics.^[223]

Christianity in the 600s saw itself as established, but religion in the Middle Ages was not unified and piously Christian.^[224][225] Christianity and many of the old beliefs existed side-by-side in the emerging Western European world.^[226][227] The church of this period allowed for "simple folk" who held an "implicit faith" without complete doctrinal understanding.^[228][229] These centuries stand alone in the history of Christianity as a period without major controversy over orthodoxy.^[230]

Church and society

Throughout this period, the western church functioned like an early version of a welfare state sponsoring public hospitals, orphanages, hospices, and hostels (inns).^[231][232] The steadily increasing number of monasteries and convents supplied food during famine and distributed food to the poor.^[233] Monasteries actively preserved ancient texts, classical craft and artistic skills, while maintaining an intellectual and spiritual culture. They supported literacy within their schools, scriptoria and libraries.^[234][235] They were models of productivity and economic resourcefulness, teaching their local communities animal husbandry, cheese making, wine making, and various other skills.^[236]

Medical practice was highly important and medieval monasteries are best known for their contributions to medical tradition. They also made advances in sciences such as astronomy, and St. Benedict's Rule (480–543) impacted politics and law.^[232][237] The formation of these organized bodies of believers gradually carved out a series of social spaces with some amount of independence, distinct from political and familial authority, thereby revolutionizing social history.^[238]

A symbiotic relationship existed between ecclesiastical institutions and civil governments between the sixth and the mid-eighth centuries with churches dependent upon lay rulers; ruling kings, dukes and counts made all appointments to ecclesiastical offices on their land.^{[188][239][240]}

The Middle Ages were complex, with diverse elements, but the concept of Christendom was pervasive and unifying.^[241] Medieval writers and ordinary folk used the term to identify themselves, their religious culture, and even their civilization.^[242][243] Membership in Christendom began with baptism at birth. Participation included rudimentary knowledge of the Apostles' Creed and the Lord's Prayer. From peasant to pope, all were required to rest on Sunday and feast days, attend mass, fast at specified times, confess once a year (after 1215), take communion at Easter, pay various fees, tithes and alms for the needy, and receive last rites at death. These were overseen and enforced by the king and his lords and bishops.^[244]

From the ninth to the eleventh century, Christendom encompassed a loose federation of churches across the European continent under the spiritual headship of the Pope.^[245] However, the Pope had no clearly established authority over those churches. He gave little general direction, and the few councils that occur in this period were called by kings not popes.^[245]

Reform and renewal

There was substantial growth in heretical movements over the five or six decades at the end of the tenth and beginning of the eleventh centuries. Nobles were overstepping in church affairs, many clergy were untrained, church posts were being bought and sold (simony), and there was a general sexual laxity.^[246][247] Religious leaders spoke out against the moral abuses of other ecclesiastical leaders.^[248] The eleventh century then became an age of religious reform and renewal.^[246][247]

Owing to its stricter adherence to the reformed

Beginning in the twelfth century, the pastoral Franciscan Order was instituted by the followers of Francis of Assisi; later, the Dominican Order was begun by St. Dominic. Called Mendicant orders, they represented a change in understanding a monk's calling as contemplative, instead seeing it as a call to actively reform the world through preaching, missionary activity, and education.^[252][253]

The means and methods of teaching an illiterate populace included mystery plays (which had developed out of the mass), wall paintings, vernacular sermons and treatises, and saints' lives in epic form.^[254] Rituals, art, literature, and cosmology were shaped by Christian norms but also contained some pre-Christian elements.^[255] Christian motifs could function in non-Christian ways, while practices of non-Christian origin became endowed with Christian meaning.^[256] In the synthesis of old and new, influence cut both ways, but the cultural dynamic lay with Christianization.^[257]

Universities

As literacy spread,

Charlemagne began the Carolingian Renaissance in France of the 800s. Sometimes called a Christian renaissance, it was a period of intellectual and cultural revival of literature, arts, and scriptural studies, a renovation of law and the courts, and the promotion of literacy.^[263]

Gregorian Reform (1050–1080) established new canon law that included laws requiring the consent of both parties for marriage, a minimum age for marriage, and laws making it a sacrament.^[264][265] This made the union a binding contract, which meant abandonment was prosecutable with dissolution of marriage overseen by Church authorities.^[266] Although the Church abandoned tradition to allow women the same rights as men to dissolve a marriage, in practice men were granted dissolutions more frequently than women.^[267][268]

Throughout the Middle Ages, abbesses and female superiors of monastic houses were powerful figures whose influence could rival that of male bishops and abbots.^[269][270]

What scholars have referred to as an "earthshaking" moment in Christian history took place in 612 when the Visigothic King Sisebut declared the obligatory conversion of all Jews in Spain, overriding Pope Gregory who had reiterated the traditional ban against forced conversion of the Jews in 591.^[271]

Near East, Byzantium and schism

From the early 600s, a series of Arab military campaigns conquered Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia.[282]^[283] Conquest, conflict, and persecution exercised a lasting influence on the churches in these regions.^[284] Under Islamic rule, persecution of non-Muslims was particularly devastating in cities where Chalcedonian churches were located. The monastic background of the Nestorians made their churches more remote, so they often escaped direct attention. In the following centuries, it was the Nestorian churches who were best able to survive and cultivate new traditions.^[285]

In the 720s, the Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian banned the pictorial representation of Christ, saints, and biblical scenes, destroying much early art history. The West condemned Leo's iconoclasm.^[286] By the tenth and early eleventh centuries, Byzantine culture began to recover and Orthodoxy was again manifested in the realms of art, scholarship, monastic revival and missionary expansion.^[275][287]

Many cultural, geographical, geopolitical, and linguistic differences between East and West existed. There were disagreements over whether Pope or Patriarch should lead the Church, whether mass should be conducted in Latin or Greek, whether priests must remain celibate, and other points of doctrine such as the Filioque Clause and Nestorianism.^{[277][293][294]} Eventually, this produced the East–West Schism, also known as the "Great Schism" of 1054, which separated the Church into Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.^[293]

Crusade

After 1071, when the

Urban's crusade message had tremendous appeal, and there was much popular enthusiasm supporting it.[302] It was a new and novel idea, and its penitential quality tapped into powerful currents of eleventh-century popular religiosity. Voluntary poverty and its renunciation of self-will flourished in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries, and a longing for the genuine "apostolic life" spread across twelfth-century Europe.^{[303][304][305][306]}

As a result, only about 10 per cent of those who went on the First Crusade were knights.^[296][297] Crusading gave ordinary Christians a tangible means of expressing brotherhood, their shared history with Eastern Christians, and charity towards them.^[307] Crusade promoted the sense of a "joined-up Christendom".^[308] It had spiritual merit for those who went as a direct result of the "dangers, the time, the cost, and the sheer physical and mental effort" that crusading took. Being a part of crusading also carried a sense of historical responsibility.^[309]

Crusading involved the church in certain paradoxes: Gregorian reform was grounded in distancing the spiritual from the secular, while crusade immersed the church in the most secular of all activities: war.^[310]

Crusades led to the development of national identities in European nations, increased division with the East, and produced cultural change.

The cult of chivalry evolved from crusade between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries and became a true cultural force that influenced art, literature and philosophy.[316]^[317] In the fourteenth century, and into the first two decades of the fifteenth, new monastic military orders such as the Military Order of the Teutonic Knights developed.^[318] Modern style preaching to ordinary folk began through the call for crusade.^[301]

Hotly debated by historians, the single most important contribution of the crusades to Christian history was, possibly, the invention of the indulgence.^[313]

Investiture and papal primacy

The

It took "five decades of excommunications, denunciations and mutual depositions...spanning the reign of two emperors and six popes" only to end inconclusively in 1122.[331]^[332] A similar controversy occurred in England.^[333]

Gregory

Under Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085), the Roman Church became what John Witte Jr. calls "an autonomous legal and political corporation" that functioned as a "state" with a strong sense of its own socioeconomic and political interests.^[334]

Western High Middle Ages (1100–1300)

Following the era of Innocent III (1198–1216), the Papacy stood as the highest authority in the West for nearly two centuries.^[335]

Between 1150 and 1200, intrepid Christian scholars traveled to formerly Muslim locations in Sicily and Spain.

This included revival of the scientific study of natural phenomena.

Hospitals, almshouses, and schools continued to be founded by the church of this era.[345] Between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries, the church also built cathedrals using architectural innovations.^[346]

Christianization of Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway and Denmark) occurred in two stages.^[347] In the first stage, missionaries arrived on their own without secular support in the ninth century.^[70] Next, a secular ruler would take charge of Christianization in their territory. This stage ended once a defined and organized ecclesiastical network was established.^[348] By 1350, Scandinavia was an integral part of Western Christendom.^[349]

Beliefs, practices and heresy

By the late eleventh and twelfth centuries, the parish church emerged as one of the fundamental institutions of medieval and Old Europe.^[350] Formed from the needs and interests of their local communities, the parish church became the center of medieval village life.^[350] By the thirteenth century, "parish" could refer indiscriminately to both village and church.^[351]

Medieval folk invoked Christian norms and practices as the ideal toward which they strove, but medieval religious life included a constant struggle to maintain those norms.^[352] Most believed that access to Heaven was available only through participating in the Church's sacraments, and living morally as defined by a list of seven virtues and seven vices.^{[353][351][354]} Private confession became a routine event required annually of every Christian after 1215.^[351] Confession and penance were the chief means of personal religious formation.^[355] Purgatory was officially adopted in 1215.^[356]

Between 1150 and 1350, the scope of how one could transgress widened. Concern over heresy grew and response to it became more severe as the concept, which had previously been applied only to bishops and church leaders who knew theology, began being applied to ordinary people.^{[357][358][359][360]} Based on the assumption that, in order to maintain a peaceful society, it was necessary to allow only one religion, heresy became a religious, political, and social issue. Prosecuting it, therefore, included both church and state.^{[361][362][363]} The courts that did so are jointly referred to as the Medieval Inquisition. This includes the Episcopal Inquisition (1184–1230) and the Papal Inquisition (1230s–1240s), though these courts had no joint leadership or organization. Created as needed, they were not permanent but were limited to specific times and places.^{[364][365][366]}

Inquisition represented a change in church juridical procedure. Echoing Roman rather than Germanic tradition, it was initially directed toward policing morality, especially sexual sin among the clergy. Sin then became aligned with crime. Crime applied to everyone. Crime justified the use of coercion.^[367][368] Torture was an aspect of civic law.^[369]

The

The Medieval Inquisition brought somewhere between 8,000 and 40,000 people to interrogation and sentence.[364] Death sentences were a relatively rare occurrence.^[374] The penalty imposed most often by Medieval Inquisitorial courts was an act of penance which could include public confession.^[375]

Between 1478 and 1542, inquisition was transformed into permanently established State controlled bureaucracies. These modern inquisitions were political institutions with a much broader reach.^{[376][377][378]}

Albigensian Crusade (1209–1229)

Pope Innocent III and the king of France, Philip Augustus, joined in 1209 in a military campaign that was promulgated as necessary for eliminating the Albigensian heresy also known as Catharism.^[379][380] Once begun, the campaign quickly took a political turn.^[381] The king's army seized and occupied strategic lands of nobles who had not supported the heretics, but had been in the good graces of the Church. Throughout the campaign, Innocent vacillated, sometimes taking the side favoring crusade, then siding against it and calling for its end.^[382] It did not end until 1229. The campaign no longer had crusade status. The entire region was brought under the rule of the French king, thereby creating southern France. Catharism continued for another hundred years (until 1350).^[383][384]

Baltic wars (1147–1316)

When the Second Crusade was called after Edessa fell, the nobles in Eastern Europe refused to go to the Near East.^[385] The Balts, the last major polytheistic population in Europe, had raided surrounding countries for several centuries, and subduing them was more important to the Eastern-European nobles.^[386] These rulers saw crusade as a tool for territorial expansion, alliance building, and the empowerment of their own church and state.^[387] In 1147, Eugenius' Divina dispensatione gave eastern nobility indulgences for the first crusade in the Baltic area.^{[385][388][389]} The Northern Crusades followed intermittently, with and without papal support, from 1147 to 1316.^{[390][391][392]} Priests and clerics developed a pragmatic acceptance of the forced conversions perpetrated by the nobles, despite the continued theological emphasis on voluntary conversion.^[393]

Eastern Christianity (1000–1586)

Bulgarians, Alanians (modern Iran), Russians and Armenians had come under the auspices of the Byzantine Patriarch by the early eleventh century.^[394][395] These rulers preferred Byzantine religion because it strongly supported their right to the throne, saw the ruler’s law making and enforcement as divinely inspired, and gained them the respect, authority and obedience needed to establish their nascent states.^[396]

In the last two decades of the 9th century, missionaries Clement and Naum, disciples of the brothers Cyril and Methodius, arrived in Romania spreading Christianity and the Cyrillic alphabet.^[403] By the 10th century, the Bulgarian Tsars imposed the Bulgarian church model and its Slavic language without opposition.^[404] This ecclesiastical and political tradition continued until the 19th century.^[405]

St. Stephen, the first Hungarian king, suppressed rebellion, organized the Hungarian State around strong royal authority, established the church by inviting missionaries and suppressing paganism, and by making laws such as one which required people to attend church every Sunday.^{[407][408][409]}

Conversion of the

Between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, the Christian churches in Egypt, Syria and Iraq became subject to fervently Muslim militaristic regimes.[411] Christians were dhimma. This cultural status guaranteed Christians rights of protection, but discriminated against them through legal inferiority.^[412] Various Christian communities adopted different strategies for preserving their identity while accommodating their rulers.^[411] Some withdrew from interaction, others converted, while some sought outside help.^[411] As a whole, Christianity in these areas declined demographically, culturally and socially.^[413] By the end of the eleventh century, Christianity was in full retreat in Mesopotamia and inner Iran. Some Christian communities further to the east continued to exist.^[281]

Byzantium and the Fall of Constantinople

In the mid-eleventh century, the Byzantine Empire was the largest and most prosperous polity in the Christian world.^[395] Constantinople remained its capitol and center, and its wealth and safety was seen, even by distant outsiders, as resulting directly from the religious devotion of its inhabitants.^[287]

The eleventh century was a period of relative peace and prosperity, and Christianity was the ‘glue' holding the empire together until April of 1204, when western crusaders in the Fourth Crusade stormed, captured, and looted Constantinople.^[414][415] It was a severe blow.^[416] Byzantine territories were divided among the Crusaders establishing the Latin Empire and the Latin takeover of the Eastern church.^[417][418]

By 1261, the Byzantines had recaptured a much weakened and poorer Constantinople.^[419][420] Mongol invasions to the East caused many Turkic refugees to pour in, strongly affecting Asia Minor, the core of Byzantium.^[421]

In 1339, the Ottoman threat prompted leaders of the Eastern and Western churches to make overtures toward reunion, but as the threat waned, nothing of substance was accomplished.^[422] In 1439, an agreement was made, but there was popular resistance in the East. As a result, it wasn't until 1452 that the decree of union was officially published in Constantinople. Resolution of the Roman-Greek conflict in Christianity was overthrown the very next year by the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.^[423][424]

The conquest of 1453 destroyed the Orthodox Church as an institution of the Christian empire inaugurated by Constantine, sealing off Greek-speaking Orthodoxy from the West for almost a century and a half.^[425][426] However, even as political fortunes declined, the spiritual and cultural influence of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, and Mount Athos the monastic peninsula, increased, forming a spiritual epicenter that continued to provide religious norms for all the Orthodox nations.^[426]

Islamic law did not recognize the Patriarch as a ‘juristic person,’ nor did it acknowledge the Orthodox Church as an institution, but it identified the Orthodox Church with the Greek community, and concern for stability allowed it to exist.^[427][428] The monastery at Mt. Athos prospered from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries.^[429] Ottomans were tolerant, and wealthy Byzantines who entered monastic life there were allowed to keep some control over their property until 1568.^[429] Compulsory resettlement meant Constantinople reacquired a considerable population of Greek Orthodox inhabitants.^[430] Leaders of the church were recognized by the Islamic state as administrative agents charged with supervising the loyal submission of its Christian subjects and the collection and delivery of their taxes.^[431]

The regularly levied and compulsory taxes, higher and higher "bids" to the sultan in hopes of receiving his appointment to the Patriarchate, and other financial gifts, corrupted the process and bankrupted the Christians involved.^[432][428] Conversion became a solution.^[433] The oldest Ottoman document lists 57 bishoprics existing in 1483. By 1525, their number decreased to fifty, and only forty are recorded from 1641–1651.^[433] Even so, by the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520 – 1566), the patriarchate had become a part of the Ottoman system, and it continued to have great influence in the Orthodox world.^[434][428]

Russia

The event associated with the conversion of the Rus' has traditionally been the baptism of Vladimir of Kiev in 989. However, aristocrats had been making attempts to unify since the mid-ninth century, and contacts with Christian countries had led the ruling class to conclude that Christianity would aid in this process.^[435] From the 950s up to the 980s, polytheism declined and many social and economic changes fostered the spread of the new religious ideology.^[402]

The Rus' dukes maintained control of the church which was financially dependent upon them.^{[436][note 8]} This new Christian religious structure was imposed upon the socio-political and economic fabric of the land by the authority of the state's rulers.^[438] While monasticism was the dominant form of piety, Christianity permeated daily life for both peasants and elites who identified themselves accordingly, while keeping pre-Christian practices as part of their religion.^[439]

In a defining moment in 1380, a coalition of Russian polities headed by the Grand Prince Dmitrii of Moscow faced the army of the Golden Horde on Kulikovo Field near the Don River, there defeating the Mongols. This began a period of transformation fusing state power and religious mission, transforming the Kievan Rus into the Russian state.^[440]

Ivan III of Muscovy adopted the style of the ancient Byzantine imperial court a generation after Constantinople fell to the Turks.^[441] This gained Ivan support among the late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Rus elite who saw themselves as the New Israel and Moscow as the new Jerusalem.^[442] Jeremias II (1536 - 1595) was the first Eastern patriarch to visit north-eastern Europe. His visit culminated in Moscow with the founding of the new Orthodox patriarchate of Russia.^[443][428]

Late Middle Ages (1300–1500)

In Europe of the Late Middle Ages people experienced plague, famine and war.^[444] There was social unrest, urban riots, peasant revolts and renegade feudal armies.^[445] The feudal system declined, parliaments and general literacy grew, and written records multiplied.^[446] Christianity remained varied, at times approving in one place what it opposed in another.^[447]

Kings had begun centralizing power into the State in the twelfth century, but it wasn't until the fourteenth century that Papal power stopped increasing, and French kings substantively gained and consolidated power.^{[446][448][449]} Societal persecution and discrimination grew, becoming core elements of society and accepted tools of the powerful.^{[450][451][note 9]}

The later Middle Ages produced a series of formal and informal groups composed of laymen and secular clerics seeking a more apostolic life.^[453] Inside and outside the church, women were central to these movements. A vernacular religious culture for the laity rose.^[306]

By 1330, the Ottomans had largely conquered Anatolia, much of the Balkans by the end of the century, and Constantinople, the last vestige of the Roman Empire, in 1453.^[454] The flight of Eastern Christians from Constantinople, and the manuscripts they carried with them, is one of the factors that prompted the literary renaissance in the West.^[455]

The Church became a leading patron of art and architecture and commissioned and supported many such as Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, Fra Angelico, Donatello, and Leonardo da Vinci.^[456] Catholic monks developed the first forms of modern Western musical notation leading to the development of classical music and all its derivatives.^[457] Scholars of the Renaissance created textual criticism revealing the Donation of Constantine as a forgery.^[458]

Avignon

In 1309, Pope Clement V moved to Avignon in southern France in search of relief from Rome's factional politics.^[460] Seven popes resided there in the Avignon Papacy, but the move to Avignon caused great indignation that cost popes prestige and power.^{[461][332][462]}

Pope Gregory XI returned to Rome in 1377.^{[463][464][465]} After Gregory's death, the papal conclave met in 1378, in Rome, and elected an Italian Urban VI to succeed Gregory.^[460] The French cardinals did not approve, so they held a second conclave electing Robert of Geneva instead. This began the Western Schism.^[466][460]

For thirty years the Church had two popes, then in 1409, the Pisan council called for the resignation of both popes, electing a third to replace them. Both Popes refused to resign, giving the Church three popes. The pious became disgusted.^[460][467] Five years later, Sigismund the Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437) pressed Pope John XXIII to call the Council of Constance (1414–1418) to depose all three popes. In 1417, the council elected Pope Martin V in their place.^[460]

A turning point in Jewish-Christian relations took place in the early 1200s when contents of the Talmud mocking the central figures of Christianity became public.^[474][475] The medieval Catholic church never advocated the expulsion of all the Jews from Christendom, nor did the Church ever repudiate Augustine's doctrine of Jewish witness, but new canon law from the Third and Fourth Lateran councils supported discrimination as secular rulers repeatedly confiscated Jewish property and evicted Jews from their lands.^{[476][477][478]}

The Spanish inquisition was authorized by the Pope in 1478 in answer to

Anti-Judaism had become part of the Inquisition in Portugal before the end of the fifteenth century, and forced conversion led many Jewish converts to India where they suffered as targets of the Goa Inquisition.^[487]

Frankfurt's Jews flourished between 1453 and 1613 despite harsh discrimination. They were restricted to one street, subject to strict rules if they wished to leave this territory and forced to wear a yellow patch as a sign of their identity. Within the community they maintained some self-governance. They had their own laws, leaders and a Rabbinical school that functioned as a religious and cultural center.^[477]

Criticism and blame

The period from around 1100 to 1349 can be identified as an era of “anticlerical revolution". It describes developing attitudes and behaviors against the clergy.^[488] Hostility was usually targeted at bad priests, ineffective incumbents or inadequate curates.^{[489][note 10]} In addition, the many great calamities of the "long fourteenth century" led folk to believe Armageddon was immanent.^[465] This sentiment ran throughout society and became intertwined with anticlerical and anti-papal sentiments.^{[491][note 11]}

Multiple strands of criticism of the clergy between 1100 and 1520 were voiced by clerics themselves.^[493] Such criticism condemned abuses and sought a more spiritual, less worldly, clergy.^[494] However, there is a constancy of complaints in the historical record that indicates most attempts at reform failed. The church's entanglement with the secular and lay exploitation were too deeply rooted. ^{[494][note 12]} Many kings and noblemen drafted competent bishops to improve their own governments leaving those diocese without spiritual leadership.^[497]

Civilization itself was changing its character. The Old Order was being challenged. The influence of educated and wealthy lay people increased as the influence of clergy waned.^[498] Practices meant to Christianize people had become "burdensome" and contributed to discontent.^[499] By the 1300s, nations were becoming more formidable opponents than they had been in the 1100s when the struggle over papal superiority first took political form.^[500][501] Evidence of decline in papal power can be found by 1302.^{[502][note 13]} Franciscans provided evidence against Pope John XXII (1316-1334) as the failings of a succession of popes contributed to criticism.^[504][505] The combination of catastrophic events, both within the church and in those events beyond its control, undermined the moral authority and constitutional legitimacy of the church opening it to local fights of authority and control.^{[506][461][332]}

Early modern (1500–1750)

Following the geographic discoveries of the 1400s and 1500s, increasing population and inflation led the emerging nation-states of Portugal, Spain, and France, the Dutch Republic, and England to explore, conquer, colonize and exploit the newly discovered territories and their indigenous peoples.^[507] Different state actors created colonies that varied widely.^[508] Some colonies had institutions that allowed native populations to reap some benefits. Others became extractive colonies with predatory rule that produced an autocracy with a dismal record.^[509]

Colonialism opened the door for Christian missionaries who accompanied the early explorers, or soon followed them.^[510][511] Although most missionaries avoided politics, they also generally identified themselves with the indigenous people amongst whom they worked and lived.^[512] On the one hand, vocal missionaries challenged colonial oppression and defended human rights, even opposing their own governments in matters of social justice for 500 years.^[512] On the other hand, there are as many examples of missionaries cooperating with colonial governments as there are of missionaries opposing colonialism.^[513]

Reformation and response (1517–1700)

In 1517, Martin Luther initiated the Reformation with his Ninety-five Theses.

Though there was no actual schism until 1521, the Protestant Reformation (1517–1648) is generally described as beginning when Martin Luther, a Catholic monk advocating church reform, nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the church door in Wittenburg in 1517. Edicts handed down by the Diet of Worms condemned Luther and officially banned citizens of the Holy Roman Empire from defending or propagating his ideas.^[514][515]

Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, and many others protested against corruptions such as simony (the buying and selling of church offices), the holding of multiple church offices by one person at the same time, and the sale of indulgences. The Protestant position later included the Five solae (sola scriptura, sola fide, sola gratia, solus Christus, soli Deo gloria), the priesthood of all believers, Law and Gospel, and the two kingdoms doctrine.

Three important traditions to emerge directly from the Reformation were the

At the same time, a collection of loosely related groups that included Anabaptists, Spiritualists, and Evangelical Rationalists, began the Radical Reformation in Germany and Switzerland.^[518] They opposed Lutheran, Reformed and Anglican church-state theories, supporting instead a full separation from the state.^[519]

Counter-reformation

The Roman Catholic Church soon struck back, launching its own Counter-Reformation beginning with Pope Paul III (1534–1549), the first in a series of 10 reforming popes from 1534 to 1605.^[520] A list of books detrimental to faith or morals was established, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, which included the works of Luther, Calvin and other Protestants along with writings condemned as obscene.^[521]

New monastic orders arose including the Jesuits.^[522] Resembling a military company in its hierarchy, discipline, and obedience, their vow of loyalty to the Pope set them apart from other monastic orders, leading them to be called "the shock troops of the papacy". Jesuits soon became the Church's chief weapon against Protestantism.^[522]

Monastic reform also led to the development of new, yet orthodox forms of spirituality, such as that of the Spanish mystics and the French school of spirituality.^[523]

The Council of Trent (1545–1563) denied each Protestant claim, and laid the foundation of Roman Catholic policies up to the twenty-first century.^[524] The Counter-Reformation also created the Uniate church which used Eastern liturgy but recognized Rome.^[525]

War

Reforming zeal and Catholic denial spread through much of Europe and became entangled with local politics. Already involved in dynastic disagreements, the quarreling royal houses became polarized into the two religious camps.

The causes of these wars were mixed. Many scholars see them as fought to obtain security and freedom for differing religious confessions, however, most have interpreted these wars as struggles for political independence that coincided with the break up of medieval empires into the modern nation states.[531]^{[529][note 14]}

Tolerance

Debate on whether peace required allowing only one faith and punishing heretics, or if ancient opinions defending leniency should be revived, occupied every version of the Christian faith.

Until the 1300s, the official position of the Roman Catholic Church was that witches did not exist.^[543] While historians have been unable to pinpoint a single cause of what became known as the "witch frenzy", scholars have noted that, without changing church doctrine, a new but common stream of thought developed at every level of society that witches were both real and malevolent.^[544] Records show the belief in magic had remained so widespread among the rural people, it has convinced some historians that Christianization had not been as successful as previously supposed.^[545] The main pressure to prosecute witches came from the common people, and trials were mostly civil trials.^[546][547] There is broad agreement that approximately 100,000 people were prosecuted, of which 80% were women, and that 40,000 to 50,000 people were executed between 1561 and 1670.^[548][544]

The Enlightenment

The era of absolutist states followed the breakdown of Christian universalism.^[549] Abuses inherent in political absolutism, practiced by kings, and supported by Catholicism, gave rise to a virulent anti-clerical, anti-Catholic, and anti-Christian sentiment that emerged in the 1680s.^[550]

Critique of Christianity began among the more extreme Protestant reformers who were enraged by fear, tyranny and persecution.^[551][552] Twenty-first century scholars tend to see the relationship between Christianity and the Enlightenment as complex with many regional and national variations.^[553][554]

Revolution and modernity (1750–1945)

After 1750, secularization at every level of European society can be observed.

During the Age of Revolution, the cultural center of Christianity shifted to the New World.^{[559][560][561]} The American Revolution and its aftermath included legal assurances of religious freedom and a general turn to religious plurality in the new country.^[562]

In the decades following the American revolution, France also experienced revolution, and by 1794, radical revolutionaries attempted to violently ‘de-Christianize’ France for the next twenty years. When Napoleon came to power, he acknowledged Catholicism as the majority view and tried to make it dependent upon the state.^[563]

The French Revolution resulted in Eastern Orthodox church leaders rejecting Enlightenment ideas as too dangerous to embrace.^[428]

Church, state and society

Revolution broke the power of the Old World aristocracy, offered hope to the disenfranchised, and enabled the middle class to reap the economic benefits of the Industrial Revolution.^[564] Scholars have since identified a positive correlation between the rise of Protestantism and human capital formation,^[565] work ethic,^[566] economic development,^[567] and the development of the state system.^[568] Weber says this contributed to economic growth and the development of banking across Northern Europe.^{[569][570][note 15]}

Awakenings (1730s–1850s)

Religious revival, known as the First Great Awakening, swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s. It had roots in German Pietism and British Evangelicalism, and was a response to the extreme rationalism of biblical criticism, the anti-Christian tenets of the Enlightenment and its threat of assimilation by the modern state.^{[574][575][576]}

Beginning among the

In places like Connecticut and Massachusetts, where one denomination received state funding, churches now began to lobby local legislatures to end that inequity by applying the Reformation principle separating church and state.^[579] Theological pluralism became the new norm.^[580]

The Second Great Awakening (1800–1830s) extolled moral reform as the Christian alternative to armed revolution. They established societies, separate from any church, to begin social reform movements concerning abolition, women's rights, temperance and to "teach the poor to read".^[581] These were pioneers in developing nation-wide organizations, a practice which businesses adopted that led to the consolidations and mergers that reshaped the American economy.^[582]

The second awakening produced the Latter Day Saint movement, the Restoration Movement and the Holiness movement. The Third Great Awakening began from 1857 and was most notable for taking awakening throughout the world, especially in English speaking countries.^[583] Restorationists were prevalent in America. They have not described themselves as a reform movement but have, instead, described themselves as restoring the Church to its original form as found in the book of Acts. Restorationism gave rise to the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement, Adventism, and the Jehovah's Witnesses.^[584][585]

Western Slavery

For over 300 years, Christians in Europe and North America participated in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.^[586] Moral objections had surfaced very soon after the establishment of the trade.^[587] By the eighteenth century, the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), followed by Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists, began to campaign, write, and spread pamphlets against the Atlantic slave trade. American Protestants organized the first anti-slavery societies.^[588] Those impacted by the Second Great Awakening continued this attempt at reform.^[589][590] In the years after the American Revolution, black congregations led by black preachers brought revival, promoted communal and cultural autonomy, and provided the institutional base for keeping abolitionism alive.^[591]

Abolitionism did not flourish in absolutist states, and slavery and human-trafficking remain common in twenty-first century Islamic states.^[592][593] It was the Protestant revivalists in both England and America, the Quaker example, African Americans themselves, and the new American republic that produced the "gradual but comprehensive abolition of slavery" in the West.^[594]

Protestant Missions (1800s–1945)

While the sixteenth century is generally seen as the "great age of Catholic expansion", the nineteenth century was that for Protestantism.^[595] Missionaries had a significant role in shaping multiple nations, cultures and societies.^[45] A missionary's first job was to get to know the indigenous people and work with them to translate the Bible into their local language. Approximately 90% were completed. The process also generated a written grammar, a lexicon of native traditions, and a dictionary of the local language. These were used to teach in missionary schools resulting in the spread of literacy.^{[596][597][598]}

Lamin Sanneh writes that native cultures responded with "movements of indigenization and cultural liberation" that developed national literatures, mass printing, and voluntary organizations which have been instrumental in generating a democratic legacy.^[596][599] On the one hand, the political legacies of colonialism include political instability, violence and ethnic exclusion, which is also linked to civil strife and civil war.^[600] On the other hand, the legacy of Protestant missions is one of beneficial long-term effects on human capital, political participation, and democratization.^[601]

In America, missionaries played a crucial role in the acculturation of the American Indians.^{[602][603][604]} The history of boarding schools for the indigenous populations in Canada and the US shows a continuum of experiences ranging from happiness and refuge to suffering, forced assimilation, and abuse. The majority of native children did not attend boarding school at all. Of those that did, many did so in response to requests sent by native families to the Federal government, while many others were forcibly taken from their homes.^[605] Over time, missionaries came to respect the virtues of native culture, and spoke against national policies.^[602]

Twentieth century

Liberal Christianity, sometimes called liberal theology, is an umbrella term for religious movements within late 18th, 19th and 20th-century Christianity. According to theologian Theo Hobson, liberal Christianity has two traditions. Before the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, liberalism was synonymous with Christian Idealism in that it imagined a liberal State with political and cultural liberty.^[606]

The second tradition derived from seventeenth century rationalism's efforts to wean Christianity from its "irrational cultic" roots.^[607] Lacking any grounding in Christian "practice, ritual, sacramentalism, church and worship", liberal Christianity lost touch with the fundamental necessity of faith and ritual in maintaining Christianity.^[608] This led to liberalism's decline and the birth of fundamentalism.^[609]

In 1925, fundamentalists participated in the Scopes trial, and by 1930, the movement appeared to be dying.^[612] Then in the 1930s, Neo-orthodoxy, a theology against liberalism combined with a reevaluation of Reformation teachings, began uniting moderates of both sides.^[613] In the 1940s, "new-evangelicalism" established itself as separate from fundamentalism.^[614] Today, fundamentalism is less about doctrine than political activism.^[615]

Christianity and Nazism

In Poland, Catholic priests were arrested and Polish priests and nuns were executed en masse.[617]

Most leaders and members of the largest Protestant church in Germany, the German Evangelical Church, which had a long tradition of nationalism and support of the state, supported the Nazis when they came to power.^[618] A smaller contingent, about a third of German Protestants, formed the Confessing Church which opposed Nazism.^{[note 16]}

Nazis interfered in The Confessing Church's affairs, harassed its members, executed mass arrests and targeted well known pastors like Martin Niemöller and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.^{[620][621][note 17]} Bonhoeffer, a pacifist, was arrested, found guilty in the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler and executed.^[623]

Russian Orthodoxy

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Church reform of Peter I in the early 18th century had placed the Orthodox authorities under the control of the tsar. An ober-procurator appointed by the tsar ran the committee which governed the Church between 1721 and 1918: the Most Holy Synod. The Church became involved in the various campaigns of russification and contributed to antisemitism.^[624][625]

The

prison camps, labour camps or mental hospitals, as well as execution.^[629][630]

Historian Scott Kenworthy describes the persecution of the church under communism as "unparalleled by any in Christian history".[631] In the first five years after the October Revolution, one journalist reported that 28 bishops and 1,200 priests were executed.^[632] This included many former nobles. Other scholarship reports that 8,000 people were killed in 1922 during the conflict over church valuables.^[633] Under the state atheism of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, the League of Militant Atheists aided in the persecution of many Christian denominations, with many churches and monasteries being destroyed, as well as clergy being executed.^{[note 18]}

Despite oppression and martyrdom under hostile rule, the Orthodox churches of the twentieth century have continued to contribute to theology, spirituality, liturgy, music, and art. Kenworthy adds that "Important movements within the church have been the revival of a Eucharistic ecclesiology, of traditional iconography, of monastic life and spiritual traditions such as Hesychasm, and the rediscovery of the Greek Church Fathers".^[637]

Christianity since 1945

Main articles:

History of Christianity of the Late Modern era and World Christianity

See also: Christianity in the 20th century and Christianity in the 21st century

Beginning in the late twentieth century, the traditional church has been declining in the West.^[638] Characterized by Roman Catholicism and mainstream Protestantism, a church functions within society, engaging it directly through preaching, teaching ministries and service programs like local food banks. Theologically, churches seek to embrace secular method and rationality while refusing the secular worldview.^[639]

Christian sects, such as the Amish and Mennonites, traditionally withdraw from, and minimize interaction with, society at large; however, the Old Order Amish have become the fastest growing subpopulation in the U.S.^[640]

The 1960s saw the rise of Pentecostalism and charismatic Christianity, emphasizing the inward experience of personal piety and spirituality.^[641][642] In 2000, approximately one quarter of all Christians worldwide were part of Pentecostalism and its associated movements.^[643] By 2025, Pentecostals are expected to constitute one-third of the nearly three billion Christians worldwide.^[644] Deininger writes that Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious movement in global Christianity.^[645]

Christianity has been challenged in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by modern secularism.^[646][647] New forms of religion which embrace the sacred as a deeper understanding of the self have begun.^[638][648] This spirituality is private and individualistic, and differs radically from Christian tradition, dogma and ritual, taking various separate directions in its implementation.^[649][650]

New forms

In the early twentieth century, the study of two highly influential religious movements, the

social gospel movement (1870s–1920s) and the global ecumenical movement (beginning in 1910), provided the context for the rise of American sociology as an academic discipline.^[651] Later, the Social Gospel and liberation theology, which tend to be highly critical of traditional Christian ethics, made the "kingdom ideals" of Jesus their goal. First focusing on the community's sins, rather than the individual's failings, they sought to foster social justice, expose institutionalized sin, and redeem the institutions of society.^[652][653] Ethicist Philip Wogaman says the social gospel and liberation theology redefined justice in the process.^[654]

Originating in America in 1966, Black theology developed a combined social gospel and liberation theology that mixes Christianity with questions of civil rights, aspects of the Black Power movement, and responses to black Muslims claiming Christianity was a "White man's" religion.^[655] Spreading to the United Kingdom, then parts of Africa, confronting apartheid in South Africa, Black theology explains Christianity as liberation for this life not just the next.^[655]

Racial violence around the world over the last several decades demonstrates how troubled issues of race remain in the twenty-first century.^[656] The historian of race and religion, Paul Harvey, says that, in 1960s America, "The religious power of the civil rights movement transformed the American conception of race."^[657] Then the social power of the religious right responded in the 1970s by recasting evangelical concepts in political terms that included racial separation.^[657] The Prosperity Gospel promotes racial reconciliation and has become a powerful force in American religious life.^[658]

The Prosperity gospel is a flexible adaptation of the ‘Neo-Pentecostalism’ that began in the twentieth century's last decades.^[659] While globally, Prosperity discourse may represent a cultural invasion of American-ism, and may even muddy the waters between the religious, and the economic and political, it has still become a trans-national movement.^[660] Prosperity ideas have diffused in countries such as Brazil and other parts of South America, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana and other parts of West Africa, China, India, South Korea, and the Philippines.^[661] It represents a shift from the Reformation view of biblical authority to the authority of charisma. It has suffered from accusations of financial fraud and sex scandals around the world, but it is critiqued most heavily by Christian evangelicals who question how genuinely Christian the Prosperity Gospel is.^[662]

Feminist theology began in 1960.^[663] In the last years of the twentieth century, the re-examination of old religious texts through diversity, otherness, and difference developed womanist theology of African-American women, the "mujerista" theology of Hispanic women, and insights from Asian feminist theology.^[664]

Post-colonial decolonization after 1945

After World War II, Christian missionaries played a transformative role for many colonial societies moving them toward independence through the development of

Fernando F. Segovia and Stephen D. Moore write that it analyzes structures of power and ideology in order to recover what colonialism erased or suppressed in indigenous cultures.^[668]

Missions

The missionary movement of the twenty-first century has transformed into a multi-cultural, multi-faceted global network of NGO's, short term amateur volunteers, and traditional long-term bi-lingual, bi-cultural professionals who focus on evangelism and local development and not on 'civilizing' native people.^[669][670]

Second Vatican Council (1962–1965)

Main article: Second Vatican Council

On 11 October 1962, Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council, the 21st ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. The council is perhaps best known for its instructions that the Mass may be celebrated in the vernacular as well as in Latin.^[671]

Ecumenism (1964)

Main article: Ecumenism

On 21 November 1964, the Second Vatican Council published Unitatis Redintegratio, stating that Roman Catholic ecumenical goals are to establish full communion amongst all the various Christian churches.^[672][673] Amongst Evangelicals, there is no agreed upon definition, strategy or goal.^[674] Different theologies on the nature of the Church have produced some hostility toward the formalism of the World Council of Churches.^[675][676] In the twenty-first century, sentiment is widespread that ecumenism has stalled.^[677]

Christianity in the Global South and East

By the twentieth century, the nineteenth-century revolutions that established the Serbian, Greek, Romanian, and Bulgarian nations had changed Orthodoxy from a universal church into a series of national churches that became subordinate to nationalism and the state.^[428] Coptic Christianity went from survival as a small minority church to revival in the twentieth century.^[631]

Africa (19th–21st centuries)

Western missionaries began the "largest, most diverse and most vigorous movement of cultural renewal in [the] history" of Africa writes historian Lammin Sanneh.^[679][680] In 1900 under colonial rule there were just under 9 million Christians in Africa. By 1960, and the end of colonialism there were about 60 million. By 2005, African Christians had increased to 393 million, about half of the continent's total population at that time.^[597] Population in Africa has continued to grow with the percentage of Christians remaining at about half in 2022.^[678] This expansion has been labeled a "fourth great age of Christian expansion".^[681]

Examples include Simon Kimbangu's movement, the

Anglicans attend church than do so in England. Ahafo, Ghana is recognized as more vigorously Christian than any place in the United Kingdom.^[684] There is revival in East Africa, and vigorous women's movements called Rukwadzano in Zimbabwe and Manyano in South Africa. The Apostles of John Maranke, which began in Rhodesia, now have branches in seven countries.^[685]

Asia

Christianity is growing rapidly in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia.[686]^[687] A rapid expansion of charismatic Christianity began in the 1980s, leading Asia to rival Latin America in the population of Charismatic and Pentecostal Christians.^[688][689]

Increasing numbers of young people in China are becoming Christians. Council on Foreign Relations data shows a 10% yearly growth in Chinese Christian populations since 1979.^[690][691]

According to a 2021 study by the Pew Research Center, Christianity has grown in India in recent years.^[692][693]

Persecution

Main article: Persecution of Christians in the post–Cold War era

See also: Anti-Christian sentiment

Anti-Christian persecution has become a consistent human rights concern.^[694] In 2013, 17 Middle Eastern Muslim majority states reported 28 of the 29 types of religious discrimination against 45 of the 47 religious minorities, including Christianity.^[695] Other countries with anti-Christian persecution include but not limited to China^[696][697], India^{[698][699][700]} and Israel.^[701][702]

See also

• Christianization
• Criticism of Christianity
• History of Christian theology
• History of Christian universalism
• History of the Eastern Orthodox Church
• History of Oriental Orthodoxy
• History of Protestantism
• History of the Catholic Church
• Rise of Christianity during the Fall of Rome
• Role of the Christian Church in civilization
• Split of Christianity and Judaism
• Timeline of Christian missions
• Timeline of Christianity
• Timeline of the Roman Catholic Church

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Notes

1. Theodosian Code of 438 were almost universally unaware of these laws, "even about rulings such as Cunctos Populos or Episcopis Tradi which in modern times have been stylized into turning points in the history of Christianity".^[131]

   Some previous scholars interpreted the Edict of Thessalonica (380) as establishing Christianity as the state religion.^[132] German ancient historian Karl Leo Noethlichs [de] and Hungarian legal scholar Pál Sáry say the Edict made no requirement for pagans or Jews to convert to Christianity, since in the years after 380, Theodosius said "the sect of the Jews was forbidden by no law."^[133]

   Ehrman says these laws lacked empire wide enforcement clauses.^[134] According to S. L. Greenslade, Theodosius's immediate concern was heresy. The Episcopis tradi uses communion with named orthodox bishops to reveal heretics, not convert pagans against their will.^[135]
2. ^ At the sacred oak and spring at Mamre, the literature says Constantine ordered the burning of the idols, the destruction of the altar, and erection of a church on the spot of the temple.^[146] The archaeology of the site shows that Constantine's church, along with its attendant buildings, occupied a peripheral sector of the precinct leaving the rest unhindered.^[147]
   Sources on what happened to the temples conflict. The ancient chronicler Malalas claimed Constantine destroyed all the temples; then he said Theodisius destroyed them all; then he said Constantine converted them all to churches.^[148][144]
   A number of elements coincided to end the temples, but none of them were strictly religious.^[149] Earthquakes caused much of the destruction of this era.^[150] Civil conflict and external invasions also destroyed many temples and shrines.^[151]
   Neglect led to progressive decay that was accompanied by an increased trade in salvaged building materials, as the practice of recycling became common in Late Antiquity.^[152] Economic struggles meant that necessity drove much of the destruction and conversion of pagan religious monuments.^{[149][153][154]} In many instances, such as in Tripolitania, this happened before Constantine became emperor.^[155]
3. ^ This difference was determined largely by how East and West defined what was "holy" in relation to society.^[189] In the west, holiness was only truly achieved after death and was, therefore, increasingly connected to the monastery and great basilica-shrines with relics of dead saints and martyrs. In the Byzantine empire, holiness remained a part of the vast ceremoniousness of Byzantine urban life.^[190]
4. ^ There is no consensus on the origins of Christianity beyond Byzantium in Asia or East Africa. Though it is scattered throughout these areas by the fourth century, there is little documentation and no complete record of it from this period.^[203] There are some good sources from Syria, Armenia and Georgia, a few "suggestive" ones from Soghdia, China and India, while Coptic and Ethiopic sources tend to be recent, and in other places only a few sources survive at all.^[204]
5. ^ The Sassanid Persian Empire was destroyed by the Muslims in 637.^[275] By 635, upper-class Christian refugees had already moved further east to China at Hsian-fu.^[276]
6. ^ Traditional scholarship sees the siege of Acre in 1291 as the ending of crusade in the Holy Land.^[298] However, modern scholars have extended the timeframe of crusade and broadened its opponents. Defining crusade has, therefore, become a contentious issue.^[299]
   Most contemporary scholars focus on the presence of three elements for a war to be categorized as a crusade: 1) papal authorization and indulgence; 2) taking vows and wearing crosses; and 3) the presence of reactionary justifications based on traditional Just War criteria that argued for redress for harm done and/or the liberation of Christians and Christian territory.^[295]
   All crusades were responses to some kind of perceived threat against the church. The Holy Land was the setting of Christ's life, and injuries to it and its inhabitants were understood as injuries to Christ himself. The Pope as Christ's spokesman could, therefore, summon his followers to vindicate that wrong.^[300] This included heresy.^[301]
7. excommunication and a ducal revolt. Eventually, Henry IV received absolution after a dramatic public penance, though the Great Saxon Revolt and conflict of investiture continued.^[328]
8. ^ The prince appointed the clergy to positions in government service, satisfied their material needs, determined who would fill the higher ecclesiastical positions, and directed the synods of bishops in the Kievan metropolitanate.^[437]
9. ^ Before 1478, neither the medieval church nor the secular kings possessed the kind of social-political apparatus, sufficient material resources, or the political support needed for persecution to become truly institutional or regularized as the modern inquisitions did.^[452]
10. ^ Scholars have generally referred to this hostility as "anticlericalism" even though the term is considered biased, and there is a lack of consensus on its elements and form in pre-Reformation Europe.^[490]
11. ^ Some claimed the clergy did little to help the suffering, although the high mortality rate amongst clerics indicates many continued to care for the sick.^[492] Other medieval folk claimed it was the "corrupted" and "vice-ridden" clergy that had caused the many calamities that people believed were punishments from God.^[492]
12. ^ By the Late Middle Ages, Benedictine and Cluniac had become so focused on centralization and institutionalization that they had become more like competing enterprises than spiritual houses.^[495] Constitutional reform, such as the Conciliar movement, was intended to unite the Church; instead, it produced a 40-year debate on what constituted legitimate authority.^[496]
13. ^ After a disagreement, Pope Boniface VIII issued the bull Unam Sanctam asserting again that, since "one sword must be under the other," the church must be supreme.^[502] This was followed in 1303 by the excommunication of Philip the Fair of France. Philip responded by sending his men to arrest the Pope.^[503]
14. Just war tradition for liberty and freedom.^[532] William T. Cavanaugh points out that many historians argue these ‘‘wars of religion’’ were not primarily religious, but were more about state-building, nationalism, and economics.^[533] If they had been motivated most deeply by religion, Catholics would fight Protestants, whereas Catholics often formed alliances with Protestants to fight other Catholics and vice versa. Historian Barbara Diefendorf argues that religious motives were always mixed with other motives, but the simple fact of Catholics fighting Catholics and Protestants fighting Protestants is not sufficient to prove the absence of religious motives, since religious conflict is often "familial".^[534] According to Marxist theorist Henry Heller, there was "a rising tide of commoner hostility to noble oppression and growing perception of collusion between Protestant and Catholic nobles".^[535]
15. ^ Max Weber in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904–1905) asserted that Protestant ethics and values along with the Calvinist doctrine of asceticism and predestination gave birth to Capitalism.^[571][572] It is one of the most influential and cited books in sociology, yet its thesis has been controversial since its release. In opposition to Weber, historians such as Fernand Braudel and Hugh Trevor-Roper assert that capitalism developed in pre-Reformation Catholic communities. Joseph Schumpeter, an economist of the twentieth century, has referred to the Scholastics as "they who come nearer than does any other group to having been the 'founders' of scientific economics".^[573]
16. ^ In a study of sermon content, William Skiles says "Confessing Church pastors opposed the Nazi regime on three fronts... first, they expressed harsh criticism of Nazi persecution of Christians and the German churches; second, they condemned National Socialism as a false ideology that worships false gods; and third, they challenged Nazi anti-Semitic ideology by supporting Jews as the chosen people of God and Judaism as a historic foundation of Christianity".^[619]
17. ^ By October 1944, 45% of all pastors and 98% of non-ordained vicars and candidates had been drafted into military service; 117 German pastors of Jewish descent served at this time, and yet at least 43% fled Nazi Germany because it became impossible for them to continue in their ministries.^[622]
18. ^ "One of the first assignments of state atheism was the eradication of religion. In their attempt to destroy faith in God, Soviet authorities used all means of persecution, arrests and trials, imprisonment in psychiatric hospitals, house raids and searches, confiscations of Bibles and New Testaments and other Christian literature, disruption of worship services by the militia and KGB, slander campaigns against Christians in magazines and newspapers, on TV and radio. Persecution of Evangelical Baptists was intensified in the early 1960s and continues to the present".^[634]
    "In the Soviet Union the Russian Orthodox Church was suffering unprecedented persecution. The closing and destruction of churches and monasteries, the sate atheism imposed on all aspects of life, the arrest, imprisonment, exile and execution of bishops, clergy, monastics, theologians and tens of thousands of active members had brought the Church to prostration. The voice of the Church in society as silenced, its teaching mocked, its extinction predicted".^[635]
    "One of the main activities of the League of Militant Atheists was the publication of massive quantities of anti-religious literature, comprising regular journals and newspapers as well as books and pamphlets. The number of printed pages rose from 12 million in 1927 to 800 million in 1930. All these legislative and publicistic efforts were, however, only incidental to the events of the 1930s. During this period religion, was quite simply, to be eliminated by means of violence. With the end of NEP came the start of forced collectivisation in 1929, and with it the terror, which encompassed kulaks and class enemies of all kinds, including bishops, priests, and lay believers, who were arrested, shot and sent to labour camps. Churches were closed down, destroyed, converted to other uses. The League of Militant Atheists apparently adopted a five-year plan in 1932 aimed at the total eradication of religion by 1937".^[636]

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External links

Media related to History of Christianity at Wikimedia Commons The following links give an overview of the history of Christianity: Historical Christianity: The Ancient Communal Faith: Print, ebook, and audiobook Diarmaid MacCulloch (2010). A History of Christianity (Television production). BBC Four. Retrieved 7 April 2022. History of Christianity Reading Room: Extensive online resources for the study of global church history (Tyndale Seminary). Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Christianity in History Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Church as an Institution Sketches of Church History From AD 33 to the Reformation by Rev. J. C Robertson, M.A., Canon of Canterbury "Church History" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 330–45. A History of Christianity in 15 Objects online series in association with Faculty of Theology, Uni. of Oxford from September 2011

The following links provide quantitative data related to Christianity and other major religions, including rates of adherence at different points in time: American Religion Data Archive Historical Christianity, A timeline with references to the descendants of the early church. Reformation Timeline, A short timeline of the Protestant Reformation. Fourth-Century Christianity