Christianity
Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Abrahamic religions
Abrahamic religions are those that worship the God of Abraham, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Early centers of Christianity
Early Christianity (up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325) spread from the Levant, across the Roman Empire, and beyond.
Early Christianity (up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325) spread from the Levant, across the Roman Empire, and beyond.
The first followers of Christianity were Jews or proselytes, commonly referred to as Jewish Christians and God-fearers.
Christianity by country
As of the year 2020, Christianity had approximately 2.6 billion+ adherents out of a worldwide population of about 7.8 billion people.
Constantine the Great
Constantine I (Flavius Valerius Constantinus; Konstantinos; 27 February c. 27222 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor who reigned from 306 to 337 AD, and was the first one to convert to Christianity.
Son of God (Christianity)
In Christianity, the title Son of God refers to the status of Jesus as the divine son of God the Father.
Religion
Usually defined as a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
Usually defined as a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
About 84% of the world's population is affiliated with Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or some form of folk religion.
Christology
In Christianity, Christology (from Greek Χριστός Khristós and -λογία, -logia), translated literally from Greek as "the study of Christ", is a branch of theology that concerns Jesus.
Judaism
Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people.
Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people.
Judaism's texts, traditions, and values strongly influenced later Abrahamic religions, including Christianity and Islam.
Protestantism
Protestantism is a form of Christianity that originated with the 16th-century Reformation, a movement against what its followers perceived to be errors in the Catholic Church.
Hebrew Bible
Canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, including the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.
Canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, including the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.
Christianity has long asserted a close relationship between the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, although there have sometimes been movements like Marcionism (viewed as heretical by the early church) that have struggled with it.