RELIGST 1B06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Common Era, Anabaptism, Calvinism
4 Nov 2016
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Key events and cultural transitions that get us to where we are: Christianity gains legitimacy in the roman empire. The encounter with islam in the iberian peninsula. Christianity divides (the great schism of eastern & western christianity) Christianity is a missionary religion eschatological urgency at its core. Christianity began as an obscure jewish sect that had few adherents and was geographically limited. By the end of the 1st century of the common era largely a religion of the. Movement had spread to several major centres in the mediterranean world (e. g. rome, antioch, corinth, ephesus, thessalonica) The jerusalem church was at first the centre of operations but quickly. For the new sect, the main question was: do you have to be jewish to be lost it"s place to rome. Constantine became emperor early in the 4th century. He came sympathizer and christianity gained official status in the roman.
