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1891 Albert Maclaren and Copland King, Anglican missionaries, arrive in New Guinea. 1893 Heresy trial of Luther Alexander Gotwald. 1894 The Kingdom of God is Within You, by Leo Tolstoy, start of Christian anarchism. 1897 Christian flag conceived in Brooklyn, New York.
Early Christianity begins with the ministry of Jesus (c. 27–30) [7] Virtually all scholars of antiquity accept that Jesus was a historical figure. [8] [9] According to Frances Young, "The crucifixion is the best-attested fact concerning Jesus." [10] He was a complex figure, which many see as a sage, a holy man, a prophet, a seer, or a ...
Spread. Christianity spread to Aramaic -speaking peoples along the Mediterranean coast and also to the inland parts of the Roman Empire, [41] and beyond that into the Parthian Empire and the later Sasanian Empire, including Assyria and Mesopotamia, which was dominated at different times and to varying extents by these empires.
1606 – Japanese shÅgun Tokugawa Ieyasu bans Christianity. 1607 – Missionary Juan Fonte establishes the first Jesuit mission among the Tarahumara in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Northwest Mexico. 1608 – A missionary expedition into the Ceará area of Brazil fails when the Tacariju kill the Jesuit leader.
Liberal Christianity, exemplified by some theologians, sought to bring to churches new critical approaches to the Bible. Sometimes called liberal theology, liberal Christianity is an umbrella term covering movements and ideas within 19th and 20th century Christianity. New attitudes became evident, and the practice of questioning the nearly ...
Catholicism – broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole. Catholic Church – also known as the Roman Catholic Church; the world's largest Christian church, with more than 1.3 billion members.
Byzantine image depicting Jesus as Christ pantocrator. 4 BC: Nativity of Jesus.According to the Gospel of Luke, his birth occurred in the town of Bethlehem during the reigns of King Herod the Great of Judaea and the Roman Emperor Augustus, and he was the son of the Virgin Mary, who conceived him by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Adoptions after 1450. 1491 – Kingdom of Kongo (Roman Catholic Church) 1519 – Tlaxcala (Roman Catholic Church) 1521 – Rajahnate of Cebu (Roman Catholic Church) 1523 – Sweden goes from Catholic to Lutheran. 1528 – Schleswig-Holstein goes from Catholic to Lutheran. 1534 – England goes from Catholic to Anglican.