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  2. Historiography of the Christianization of the Roman Empire

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    The growth of Christianity from its obscure origin c. 40 AD, with fewer than 1,000 followers, to being the majority religion of the entire Roman Empire by AD 400, has been examined through a wide variety of historiographical approaches.

  3. Christianity as the Roman state religion - Wikipedia

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    On the contrary, "in the East Roman or Byzantine view, when the Roman Empire became Christian, the perfect world order willed by God had been achieved: one universal empire was sovereign, and coterminous with it was the one universal church"; [18] and the church came, by the time of the demise of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, to merge ...

  4. Christian influences on the Islamic world - Wikipedia

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    Christian influences in Islam can be traced back to Eastern Christianity, which surrounded the origins of Islam. [1] Islam, emerging in the context of the Middle East that was largely Christian, was first seen as a Christological heresy known as the "heresy of the Ishmaelites", described as such in Concerning Heresy by Saint John of Damascus, a Syriac scholar.

  5. Timeline of official adoptions of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    1631 – Kingdom of Matamba (Roman Catholic Church) 1633 – Ethiopia returns from Catholic to Coptic; 1640 – Piscataway (Roman Catholic Church) 1642 – Huron-Wendat Nation (Roman Catholic Church) 1650 – Kingdom of Larantuka (Roman Catholic Church) 1654 – Onondaga (Roman Catholic Church) 1663–1665 – Kingdom of Loango (briefly Roman ...

  6. Christianity and Islam - Wikipedia

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    The majority of Christians view Islam as a false religion due to the fact that its adherents reject the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ. Like Christianity, Islam considers Jesus to be al-Masih (Arabic for the Messiah ) who was sent to guide the Banī Isrā'īl (Arabic for Children of Israel) with a ...

  7. History of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    He did not make Christianity the state religion, but he did provide crucial support. Constantine called the first of seven ecumenical councils. In the fourth-century, Eastern and Western Christianity had already begun to diverge. Between 600 and 750, the constant need to defend itself in war turned the Eastern Roman Empire into the independent ...

  8. Christianization - Wikipedia

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    Hispania had become part of the Roman Republic in the third century BC. [265] Christian communities can be found dating to the third century, and bishoprics had been created in León, Mérida and Zaragoza by that same period. [266] In AD 300 an ecclesiastical council held in Elvira was attended by 20 bishops. [267]

  9. Religious persecution in the Roman Empire - Wikipedia

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    When Christianity became the state church of the Roman Empire, it came to accept that it was the Roman emperor's duty to use secular power to enforce religious unity. Anyone within the church who did not subscribe to catholic Christianity was seen as a threat to the dominance and purity of the " one true faith " and they saw it as their right ...