In the early Christian church there were many famous people who helped the church‚ and there were also a few infamous people who did not. Throuought the 1st century A.D some of the most influential Christian leaders lived‚ such as the apostles. For the first fewhundred years the church was very primitive and unstable and many people were killed during these rimes‚ these people were martyrs. There were many people and events that shaped the relgion that we now know today as Catholosism. I am going
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time period around 300AD it was common for emperors and political opponents to lean towards assassination as a means of achieving power. So‚ when young Constantine wanted power he knew it would mean war and it is believed that during a dream of this battle a holy figure told him that with the shape of the cross he would find victory. Constantine put the cross shape on many of the men’s shields but did not push the Christianity belief yet because he knew it would have to move slow‚ and with his victory
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Fire in Rome in 64 AD and the Deaths of Peter and Paul Roman Fire in 64 AD Table of Contents Fire in Rome in 64 AD……………………………………………………………………….…...1 Death of the Apostle Peter…………………………...…………………………………………...2 Death of the Apostle Paul.…………..……………………………………………………….…...4 References…………………………………………………….…………………………….…….7 Fire in Rome in 64 AD and the Deaths 1 Fire in Rome in 64 AD and the Deaths of Peter and Paul Roman Fire
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When Christianity was first developed‚ it was often thought of as a radical cult targeting Rome. These thoughts come from the higher powers of the Roman civilization‚ yet as time progressed the leaders started assimilating the religion into society. The view of the Christians began to change as the religion began to spread its ideals throughout the lower class. The morals of Christianity gave the lower class comfort‚ for they did not have the same luxuries as the upper class did. Especially for women
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political situation of a country can affect religion. A political advantage is a huge advantage. Christianity did not become a majority religion until it gained political power; namely‚ with Constantine. Before so‚ Christianity was a minority--and in some cases persecuted. Rome was a large civilization‚ and when Constantine legalized and adopted Christianity‚ it spread to all the lands Rome had conquered--not only Italy or the immediate area of Rome. This greatly expanded the monotheistic Christianity through
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throne known as Constantine. Quoting from the roman-empire.net (n.d.) ’The key moment in the establishment if Christianity as the predominant religion of the Roman empire‚ happened in AD 312 when emperor Constantine on the eve before battle against the rival emperor Maxentius had a vision of the sign of Christ (the so called chi-rho symbol) in a dream.’ (Anon‚ n.d.) At the time that Christianity was introduced in the Roman Empire the land had undergone a dramatic change‚ and this conversion altered the
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Christianity. There were relics all over world that stimulated pilgrimages to these places which helped spread Christianity. The spread of Islam occurred because of the conquering and expansions of empires‚ but this didn’t lead to the immediate conversion of people. This was a major factor that helped these religions spread thousands of miles away from their origins. 2. How did these three major religions change and adapt to diverse cultural circumstances? For Buddhism‚ they told the local
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few charismatic local leaders and developed their own liturgy. However‚ the conversion of Emperor Constantine in AD312 changed the structure of Christianity and turned it into a well-organized‚ quasi-political institution. The Church provided Constantine with a tool to use to hold together the crumbling Empire. The Church came under the Emperor’s control with the Emperor as the divus caesar‚ or divine emperor. Constantine used the Christian bishops as imperial officials to administer law and justice
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of each region as well as a personal lieutenant to rule over the empire. The four officials were called tetrarchs. The change that Diocletian brought about was his control of imperial forces and attempting to strengthen the economy. His son‚ Constantine‚ established the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire at
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at University of Washington‚ analyzes this puzzle. He "introduces historians and biblical scholars to real social science‚ including formal rational choice theory‚ theories of the firm‚ the role of social networks and interpersonal attachments in conversion‚ dynamic population models‚ social epidemiology‚ and models of religious economies". The result is stimulating‚ provocative‚ and revolutionary. In “The Rise of Christianity”‚ Rodney Stark identifies several factors that contributed to the spread
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