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Before 1945, about a third of the people in the world were Christians, and about 80% of them lived in Europe, Russia, and the Americas. [531] After World War II, Christian missionaries played a transformative role in many colonial societies, moving them toward independence through decolonization.
Defensively-oriented Byzantine diplomacy was intended to protect the oikoumenē, the civilised Christian world which the empire rightfully ruled. [199] The decline of the key limitrophe system, wherein client states along the borders served as intermediaries between the empire and other large enemies, exposed the empire to attack.
In the first centuries of Christianity churches were either house churches in whatever houses were offered for use by their owners, or were shrines on the burial-sites of martyrs or saints, which following the usual classical practice were invariably on the (then) edges of cities—the necropolis was always outside the polis.
English: Christianity: the origin of Christianity from a strictly historical point of view, being a lecture delivered before the Sunday Lecture Society, on Sunday, 21st November, 1880 by Zerffi, G. G. (Gustavus George)
Rulers of Byzantine Empire in XI century. Based on Chronographia by Michael Psellus: Image title: Rulers of Byzantine Empire in XI century. Based on Chronographia by Michael Psellus: Author: Vitaly Repin: Keywords: Byzantine,Psellos: Software used: LaTeX with hyperref package: Conversion program: pdfTeX-1.40.14: Encrypted: no: Page size: 595. ...
The Church Fathers in an 11th-century depiction from Kyiv. The term "Great Church" (Latin: ecclesia magna) is used in the historiography of early Christianity to mean the period of about 180 to 313, between that of primitive Christianity and that of the legalization of the Christian religion in the Roman Empire, corresponding closely to what is called the Ante-Nicene Period.
The Byzantine Empire was one of the peaks in Christian history and Christian civilization, and Constantinople remained the leading city of the Christian world in size, wealth, and culture. There was a renewed interest in classical Greek philosophy , as well as an increase in literary output in vernacular Greek.