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Religion in Britain since 1945: Believing without belonging (Blackwell, 1994) Davies, Rupert E. et al. A History of the Methodist Church in Great Britain (3 vol. Wipf & Stock, 2017). online; Gilley, Sheridan, and W. J. Sheils. A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present (1994) 608pp excerpt and text ...
The process of Christianisation and timing of the adoption of Christianity varied by region and was not necessarily a one-way process, with the traditional religion regaining dominance in most kingdoms at least once after their first Christian king. Kings likely often converted for political reasons such as the imposition by a more powerful ...
c. 313 – Caucasian Albania (Udi) [2] c. 319 – Christianization of Iberia (Georgia) [3] [4] [5] c. 325 – Kingdom of Aksum (Ethiopian Orthodox Church) 337 – Roman Empire (baptism of Constantine I) 361 – Rome returns to paganism under Julian the Apostate; 364 – Rome returns to Christianity, specifically the Arian Church
300 First Christians reported in Greater Khorasan; an estimated 10% of the world's population is now Christian; parts of the Bible are available in 10 different languages [52] 301 – Armenia is the first kingdom in history to adopt Christianity as state religion; 303–312 Diocletian's Massacre of Christians, includes burning of scriptures
After 380, Christianity was the official religion of the Roman Empire, and there was some sort of formal church organisation in Britain led by bishops. In the 5th century, the end of Roman rule and invasions by Germanic pagans led to the destruction of any formal church organisation in England.
Historian Marc Morris writes, "As for organized Christianity in Britain, the evidence suggests it had never been very strongly established in the first place." [5] While archaeological evidence from Roman villas indicates that some aristocrats were Christians, Morris argues there is little evidence for the existence of urban churches. [5]
It is the mother church of the Anglican tradition, with foundational doctrines being contained in the Thirty-nine Articles and The Books of Homilies. [2] The Church traces its history to the Christian hierarchy recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain by the 3rd century and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by ...
The "Venerable Bede" was a Christian monk (672–735) who wrote what sociologist and anthropologist Hutton Webster describes as "the first truly historical work by an Englishman" describing the Christianization of Britain. [110]