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Christianity is the predominant religion in Europe. [2] Christianity has been practiced in Europe since the first century, and a number of the Pauline Epistles were addressed to Christians living in Greece, as well as other parts of the Roman Empire.
The majority of Europe’s Christians are non-practicing, but they differ from religiously unaffiliated people in their views on God, attitudes toward Muslims and immigrants, and opinions about religion’s role in society.
The spread of Christianity throughout Europe was initiated by early Christian missionaries who embarked on arduous journeys to bring the message of Jesus Christ to new lands.
Christians remain world’s largest religious group, but they are declining in Europe. Christians remained the largest religious group in the world in 2015, making up nearly a third (31%) of Earth’s 7.3 billion people, according to a new Pew Research Center demographic analysis.
Most Christians in Western Europe today are non-practicing, but Christian identity still remains a meaningful religious, social and cultural marker, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 15 countries in Western Europe.
Post-Christian. Secular. A prodigal continent. These are some of the words often used to describe Christianity in Europe. Yet, a growing number of voices believe God is not done with Europe.
The idea of Europe as it is today did not come into existence until Catholic missionary monks began sharing the Gospel in northern Europe. Historian Douglas Jacobsen wrote, “at the time when the Roman Empire first became Christian, the idea did not exist of a place called ‘Europe.’.
In recounting the history of Christianity in western Europe and the British Isles from the time of the apostle Paul to the present, this article is designed to account for the identification of Christianity with Europe and to describe its later significance.
This chapter discusses Europe's Christian heritage. The importance of Christianity in European history, even in the very idea of Europe, cannot be doubted. The area which can be called Europe today roughly corresponds to eleventh-century Latin Christendom, and it is self-evident that the main legal and political concepts that structured state ...
Christianity provided some of the most important cultural orientations for Europe, including, too, a civilizational worldview. At the core of Christianity lies the belief in redemption, which cultivated modern individualism and the belief that the profane world can be mastered by the individual.