A report on History of Christianity, Christianity, Jewish Christian and Early centers of Christianity
The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, Christian countries, and the Christians with their various denominations, from the 1st century to the present.
- History of ChristianityEarly Christianity (up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325) spread from the Levant, across the Roman Empire, and beyond.
- Early centers of ChristianityThe first followers of Christianity were Jews or proselytes, commonly referred to as Jewish Christians and God-fearers.
- Early centers of ChristianityThe earliest followers of Jesus were apocalyptic Jewish Christians.
- History of ChristianityChristianity began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the 1st century Hellenistic Judaism in the Roman province of Judea.
- ChristianityJewish Christianity is the foundation of Early Christianity, which later developed into Christianity.
- Jewish ChristianJesus' apostles and their followers spread around the Levant, Europe, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, the South Caucasus, Egypt, and Ethiopia, despite initial persecution.
- ChristianityIt soon attracted gentile God-fearers, which led to a departure from Jewish customs, and, after the Fall of Jerusalem, AD 70 which ended the Temple-based Judaism, Christianity slowly separated from Judaism.
- ChristianityAccording to, the term "Christian" (Χριστιανός) was first used in reference to Jesus's disciples in the city of Antioch, meaning "followers of Christ", by the non-Jewish inhabitants of Antioch.
- Jewish ChristianThe early Christian groups were strictly Jewish, such as the Ebionites, and the early Christian community in Jerusalem, led by James the Just, brother of Jesus.
- History of ChristianityJewish Christians were the original members of the Jewish movement that later became Christianity.
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Christianity in the 1st century
0 linksChristianity in the 1st century covers the formative history of Christianity from the start of the ministry of Jesus ( 27–29 AD) to the death of the last of the Twelve Apostles ( 100) and is thus also known as the Apostolic Age.
Paul the Apostle, a Pharisee Jew who had persecuted the early Jewish Christians, converted 33–36 and started to proselytize among the Gentiles.
The apostles went on to spread the message of the Gospel around the classical world and founded apostolic sees around the early centers of Christianity.
The Edict of Serdica was issued in 311 by the Roman emperor Galerius, officially ending the Diocletianic persecution of Christianity in the East.