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One may generally date late ancient Christianity as lasting to the late 6th century and the re-conquests under Justinian (reigned 527–565) of the Byzantine Empire, though a more traditional end-date is 476, the year in which Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustus, traditionally considered the last western emperor.
The late date for the writing of 1 Peter ... Armenia is the first kingdom in history to adopt Christianity as state religion; ... Timeline of Church History ...
This is a timeline showing the dates when countries or polities made Christianity the official state religion, generally accompanying the baptism of the governing monarch. Adoptions of Christianity to AD 1450
1723 – Robert Millar publishes A History of the Propagation of Christianity and the Overthrow of Paganism advocating prayer as the primary means of converting non-Christians [173] 1724 – Yongzheng Emperor bans missionary activities outside the Beijing area; 1725 – Knud Leem arrives as a missionary to the Sami people of Finnmark (Norwegian ...
Late Antiquity was an age of change as Christianity became a licit religion, and then a favored one, and transformed in every capacity. [92] The emperor Constantine , a self-declared Christian, issued the 313 Edict of Milan expressing tolerance for all religions. [ 93 ]
A hierarchy within Pauline Christianity seems to have developed by the late 1st century and early second century. [ 65 ] (see Pastoral Epistles , c. 90–140 [ 65 ] ) Robert Williams posits that the "origin and earliest development of episcopacy and monepiscopacy and the ecclesiastical concept of (apostolic) succession were associated with ...
History of Christian theology – an overview of various ideas in the development of Christian theology. History of late ancient Christianity – traces Christianity during the Christian Roman Empire – the period from the rise of Christianity under Emperor Constantine (c. 313), until the fall of the Roman Empire in the West (c. 476).
The creation of a literalist chronology of the Bible faces several hurdles, of which the following are the most significant: . There are different texts of the Jewish Bible, the major text-families being: the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the original Hebrew scriptures made in the last few centuries before Christ; the Masoretic text, a version of the Hebrew text curated by the Jewish ...