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Epaphras – Epaphras was a Christian preacher who spread the Gospel to his fellow Colossian citizens (Col. 1:7; 4:12). Epaphroditus – Epaphroditus is a New Testament figure appearing as an envoy of the Philippian church to assist the Apostle Paul (Phil. 2.25-30).
With more than 1.1 billion baptized members, the Catholic Church is the largest Christian church and represents 50.1% [1] of all Christians as well as 16.7% of the world's population. [ 390 ] [ 391 ] [ 392 ] Catholics live all over the world through missions , diaspora , and conversions .
It had the sense now taken by Christianity (as is still the case with the cognate Dutch christendom, [12] where it denotes mostly the religion itself, just like the German Christentum). [13] The current sense of the word of "lands where Christianity is the dominant religion" [4] emerged in Late Middle English (by c. 1400). [14]
Syro-Malabar Church – 4.3 million [12] Chaldean Catholic Church – 0.6 million [12] West Syriac Rite – 4.2 million Maronite Church – 3.5 million [12] Syro-Malankara Catholic Church – 0.5 million [12] Syriac Catholic Church – 0.2 million [12] Armenian Rite – 0.8 million Armenian Catholic Church – 0.8 million [12] Alexandrian Rite ...
Christian theology is the study of Christian belief and practice. Such study concentrates primarily upon the texts of the Old Testament and the New Testament as well as on Christian tradition . Christian theologians use biblical exegesis , rational analysis, and argument.
At all times, traditions of folk religion existed largely independent from official denominations or dogmatic theology. [4] From the Middle Ages onwards, as the centralized Roman power waned in southern and central Europe, the dominance of the Catholic Church was the only consistent force in Western Europe. [4]
Bart D. Ehrman attributes the rapid spread of Christianity to five factors: (1) the promise of salvation and eternal life for everyone was an attractive alternative to Roman religions; (2) stories of miracles and healings purportedly showed that the one Christian God was more powerful than the many Roman gods; (3) Christianity began as a ...
A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity that comprises all church congregations of the same kind, identifiable by traits such as a name, particular history, organization, leadership, theological doctrine, worship style and, sometimes, a founder.