polska: History of Christianity

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The history of Christianity begins with Jesus, an itinerant Jewish preacher and teacher, who was crucified in Jerusalem c. AD 30–33. His followers proclaimed that he was the incarnation of God and had risen from the dead. In the two millennia since, Christianity has spread across the world, becoming the world's largest religion with over two billion adherents worldwide. Christianity was a mostly urban grassroots movement that grew to over a million adherents by the third century. In its first century, it began developing a church government and a religious text, which was not formalized as canon until the fourth century. Constantine the Great issued the Edict of Milan legalizing it in 313.…

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Christianity Encountering World Religions: The Practice of Mission in the Twenty-First Century (review)

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Christianity in the Context of Other World Religions: Interreligious Dynamics and Developments in the 20th Century

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World Christianity After World Religions

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World Christianity: An Agenda for the Twenty-First Century. ABSTRACT The following are some of the questions that this keynote address explores: What is world Christianity? How does it differ, if at all, from global Christianity? What are the sources for the study of world Christianity? What are the methodological and theoretical issues and challenges in the study of world Christianity? What is the correlation between world Christianity and transnationalism? How has the formation of world Christianity been impacted by precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial experiences? To what extent is the ascendency of populism in the Global North (e.g., Trumpism) a response/reaction to the decline of Ch…

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The Ottoman Empire, also known historically as Turkey or the Turkish Empire, was a state that spanned much of Southeastern Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th century to the early 20th century, centred in modern-day Turkey. It also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. The empire emerged from a beylik, or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in c. 1299 by the Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans by the mid-14th century, transforming their petty kingdom into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the conquest of…

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Christianity in the 1st century covers the formative history of Christianity from the start of the ministry of Jesus (c. 27–29 AD) to the death of the last of the Twelve Apostles (c. 100) and is thus also known as the "Apostolic Age." Early Christianity developed out of the ministry of Jesus. Subsequent to Jesus' death, his earliest followers formed an apocalyptic messianic Jewish sect during the late Second Temple period of the 1st century. Paul the Apostle, a Pharisee who had persecuted the early Christians of Judea, converted c. 33–36 and began to proselytize among the Gentiles. According to Paul, Gentile converts were exempted from Jewish commandments; he argued that all are justified b…

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The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese, Modern South Arabian languages and numerous other ancient and modern languages. They are spoken by more than 460 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Malta, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia. The terminology was first used in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen school of history, who derived the name from Shem (שם), one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis. Since the 19th century, alternative names, such as Syro-Arabian languages, have been…

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Religion in South Africa is dominated by various branches of Christianity, which collectively represent over 85% of the country's total population. South Africa is a secular state with a diverse religious population. Its constitution guarantees freedom of religion. Many religions are represented in the ethnic and regional diversity of the country's population.

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A decline of Christian affiliation in the Western world has been observed in the decades since the end of World War II (1939–1945). While most countries in the Western world were historically almost exclusively Christian, the post–World War II era has seen developed countries with modern, secular educational facilities shifting towards post-Christian, secular, globalized, multicultural, and multifaith societies. While Christianity is currently the predominant religion in North America, Latin America, and Europe, the religion is declining in many of these areas, particularly in Western Europe, Central Europe, the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. A decline in Christianity amo…

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Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes evangelism, or the preaching and spreading of the Christian gospel. The term evangelical is derived from the Koine Greek word εὐαγγέλιον (euangelion), meaning "good news," in reference to the message of salvation through Jesus Christ. Evangelicalism typically places a strong emphasis on personal conversion, often described as being "born again", and regards the Bible as the ultimate authority in matters of faith and practice. The definition and scope of evangelicalism are subjects of debate among theologians and sch…

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Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, ethics, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. It is an essentially contested concept. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacredness, faith, and a supernatural being or beings. The origin of religious belief is an open question, with possible explanations including awareness of individual death, a sense of community, and dreams. Religi…