Christianity

Examples of Christianity in the following topics:

• The Rise of Christianity

  • Christianity posed a serious threat to the traditional Romans.
  • As such, Christianity was considered criminal and was punished harshly.
  • Christians were never purged systematically in any part of the empire, and Christian evasion continually undermined the edicts' enforcement.
  • Although the persecution resulted in death, torture, imprisonment, or dislocation for many Christians, the majority of the empire's Christians avoided punishment.
  • Christianity became the greatest beneficiary of imperial largesse.

• Danish Intervention

  • Christian IV had also profited greatly from his policies in northern Germany.
  • Denmark's King Christian IV had obtained for his kingdom a level of stability and wealth that was virtually unmatched elsewhere in Europe.
  • Some 13,700 Scottish soldiers were to be sent as allies to help Christian IV under the command of General Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl of Nithsdale.
  • Christian, who knew nothing of Wallenstein's forces when he invaded, was forced to retire before the combined forces of Wallenstein and Tilly.
  • Christian IV receives homage from the countries of Europe as mediator in the Thirty Years' War.

• Culture and Religion in Pre-Islamic Arabia

  • After Constantine conquered Byzantium in 324 CE, Christianity spread to Arabia.
  • Traditionally, both Jews and Christians believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for Jews the God of the Tanakh, for Christians the God of the Old Testament, the creator of the universe. 
  • The northwest was under the influence of Christian missionary activity from the Roman Empire, where the Ghassanids, residents of a client kingdom of the Romans, were converted to Christianity.
  • In the south, particularly at Najran, a center of Christianity developed as a result of the influence of the Christian kingdom of Axum based on the other side of the Red Sea in Ethiopia.
  • Both the Ghassanids and the Christians in the south adopted Monophysitism.

• The Reconquista

  • In a minor battle known as the Battle of Covadonga, a Muslim force sent to put down the Christian rebels in the northern mountains was defeated by Pelagius of Asturias, who established the monarchy of the Christian Kingdom of Asturias.
  • Under his son, other Christian cities were subjected to numerous raids.
  • Medieval Spain was the scene of almost constant warfare between Muslims and Christians.
  • Faced with the choice of death, conversion, or emigration, many Jews and Christians left.
  • The Taifa kingdoms lost ground to the Christian realms in the north.

• The Eastern Roman Empire, Constantine the Great, and Byzantium

  • The first Roman emperor to claim conversion to Christianity, Constantine played an influential role in the development of Christianity as the religion of the empire.
  • Constantine was the first emperor to stop Christian persecutions and to legalise Christianity along with all other religions and cults in the Roman Empire.
  • The edict stated that Christians should be allowed to follow the faith without oppression.
  • Helena's Christianity in his youth, or whether he adopted it gradually over the course of his life.
  • According to Christian writers, Constantine was over 40 when he finally declared himself a Christian, writing to Christians to make clear that he believed he owed his successes to the protection of the Christian High God alone.

• Vladimir I and Christianization

  • The first mention of any attempts to bring Christianity to Rus' appears around 860.
  • The major player in the Christianization of the Rus' world is traditionally considered Vladimir I.
  • He also announced he would Christianize Kievan Rus' if he was offered a desirable marriage tie.
  • A Christian representation of Vladimir I, who was the first Rus' leader to officially bring Christianity to the region.
  • Outline the shift from pagan culture to Orthodox Christianity under the rule of Vladimir I

• The Crusades

  • The Crusades were a series of military conflicts conducted by Christian knights for the defence of Christians and for the expansion of Christian domains between the 11th and 15th century.
  • Crusades were fought for many reasons: to capture Jerusalem, recapture Christian territory, or defend Christians in non-Christian lands; as a means of conflict resolution among Roman Catholics; for political or territorial advantage; and to combat paganism and heresy.
  • Christianity had spread throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East in Late Antiquity, but by the early 8th century Christian rule had become limited to Europe and Anatolia after the Muslim conquests.
  • Tolerance, trade, and political relationships between the Arabs and the Christian states of Europe waxed and waned.
  • Increasingly in the 11th century foreign knights, mostly from France, visited Iberia to assist the Christians in their efforts.

• The Nomadic Tribes of Arabia

  • Pre-Islamic religion in Arabia consisted of indigenous polytheistic beliefs, Ancient Arabian Christianity, Nestorian Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism.
  • Christianity existed in the Arabian Peninsula, and was established first by the early Arab traders who heard the gospel from Peter the apostle at Jerusalem (Acts 2:11), as well as those evangelized by Paul's ministry in Arabia (Galatians 1:17) and by St Thomas.
  • While ancient Arabian Christianity was strong in areas of Southern Arabia, especially with Najran being an important center of Christianity, Nestorian Christianity was the dominant religion in Eastern Arabia prior to the advent of Islam.
  • This was partly because of the embrace of Judaism by leaders such as Abu Karib Asad and Dhu Nuwas, who was very aggressive about converting his subjects to Judaism, and who persecuted Christians in his kingdom as a reaction to Christian persecution of Jews there by the local Christians.

• The Catholic Church

  • The contemporary Catholic Church says that it is the continuation of the early Christian community established by Jesus.
  • Christianity spread throughout the early Roman Empire, despite persecutions due to conflicts with the pagan state religion.
  • In 313, the struggles of the Early Church were lessened by the legalisation of Christianity by the Emperor Constantine I.
  • In this environment, Christianity spread from Roman Britain to Ireland, especially aided by the missionary activity of St.
  • Columba and Columbanus spread this Christianity, with its distinctively Irish features, to Scotland and the Continent.

• The Development of Papal Supremacy

  • In the early Christian era, Rome and a few other cities had claims on the leadership of worldwide Church.
  • During the 1st century of the Church (c. 30–130), the Roman capital became recognized as a Christian center of exceptional importance.
  • When Constantine became emperor of the Western Roman Empire in 312, he attributed his victory to the Christian God.
  • Many soldiers in his army were Christians, and his army was his base of power.
  • In 380, the Edict of Thessalonica declared Nicene Christianity, as opposed to Arianism, to be the state religion of the empire, with the name "Catholic Christians" reserved for those who accepted that faith.