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List of Christian socialists; List of converts to Christianity; Christian martyrs; List of members of Opus Dei; List of Protestant Reformers; List of people with Restoration Movement ties; List of saints; List of Roman Catholic cleric-scientists; List of Christian leftists; List of Christian democrats
The three most important languages in the early Christian era were Latin, Greek, and Syriac (a dialect of Aramaic). [16] [17] [18] The Gospel of John notes that the phrase "Jesus, King of the Jews" was inscribed upon the cross of Christ in three different languages, thereby sanctifying them as the first languages to proclaim his divinity. These ...
Christianity by country. Christianity is a religion open to all humanity [5] that counts one out of every three people on earth among its members. [5] The Christian world encompasses a greater area of land than that of any other religious territory. [8] In terms of both population and geography, Christianity is the world's largest religion. [9]
Smith, Christian; Joshua Prokopy (1999). Latin American Religion in Motion. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-92106-0. Singh, Upinder (2016), A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century, Pearson Education, ISBN 978-93-325-6996-6
Set of pictures for a number of famous Eastern Orthodox Christians from various fields. This is primarily a list of notable people who contributed to the history of Eastern Orthodox Christianity's theology or culture. However it is also for people whose Eastern Orthodox identity is an important part of their notability.
Vatican City and St. Peter's Basilica.. Christianity played a prominent role in the development of Western civilization, in particular, the Catholic Church and Protestantism. [5] [50] Western culture, throughout most of its history, has been nearly equivalent to Christian culture, and much of the population of the Western hemisphere could broadly be described as cultural Christians.
Christian scripture was formalized as the New Testament, distinguishing it from the Hebrew Old Testament, by the fourth century. [165] [166] Despite agreement on these texts, differences between Eastern and Western churches were becoming evident. [167] [168] Latin was used by the west but not the east, where Greek, Syriac, and other languages ...
Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books. Christian Bibles range from the sixty-six books of the Protestant canon to the eighty-one books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church canon.