Christianity

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Christianity

• Brian Lieberman
• Alex Manning

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General Facts

• Centered around the life of Jesus Nazareth
• Christians believe that Jesus is the begotten Son
  of God and the Messiah
• Jesus Christ is the savior of humanity who
  suffered, died and was resurrected to bring
  salvation for sin
• Abrahamic religion (Judeo-Christian)
• Estimated between 1.5 and 2.1 billion followers

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History

• Began as a Jewish sect in the eastern
  Mediterranean region around the 1st Century.
• Persecuted until Constantine issued Edict of
  Toleration in 313
• Emperor Theodosius established Catholic
  Christianity as the official religion of the
  Roman Empire in 380. Since then, Christianity has
  been a huge factor in the shaping of the west

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History

• During the Early middle ages, The pope became a
  political player.
• At this time the Church was expanding, replacing
  the barbaric tribes with its own. As well as
  starting missionary works around the world.
• Later this would lead to the Crusades and Spanish
  Reconquistadors.
• Christianity was growing

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The Crusades

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• - Council of Clermont

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History The Crusades

• Series of military campaigns in the Holy Land
  (Jerusalem) against Turkish expansion
• Alexios I of Byzantine
• Ultimately failed to stop Islamic aggression
• Schism between 7th and 13th centuries
• Inquisition established after crusades and
  East/West schism with the goal of suppressing
  heresy and securing religious and doctrinal unity
  within Christianity through conversion and
  prosecution

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History Reformation and Protestantism

• Martin Luther, and later John Calvin and Huldrych
  (Ulrich) Zwingli protested traditional Catholic
  teachings
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• Henry VIII declares himself as head of the Church
  of England,

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Modern History

• Confronted with skepticism from new fronts of
  liberalism, nationalism, and socialism
• Ranged from general anti-clericalism to outright
  violence, such as found during the French
  Revolution Spanish Civil War, and Russian
  Revolution
• General shift of importance from east to west
  across Atlantic to the Americas

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Practices and Beliefs

• Belief in God the Father, Jesus Christ as the Son
  of God and the Holy Spirit
• the death, descent into hell, resurrection, and
  ascension of Christ
• the holiness of the Church and the communion of
  saints
• Christ's second coming, the Day of Judgement and
  salvation of the faithful.
• The belief that Jesus Christ was anointed by God
  as ruler and savior of humanity
• The word Messiah is derived from the Hebrew
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  further translated into the Greek ???st?? which
  is Christos, and thus, the English Christ is
  derived

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