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Christianity
The Way; the Church
c.30–33 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · Global; largest in the Americas, Europe, sub-Saharan Africa
IV. THE CLASSICAL & IMPERIAL WORLD — c.200 BCE – 500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.4 BCE Birth of Jesus (the conventional calendar is off by several years — Herod the Great died in 4 BCE).
- c.30–33 CE Crucifixion in Jerusalem. The disciples report resurrection appearances.
- c.34 CE Paul's conversion on the Damascus road.
- c.49 CE Council of Jerusalem decides Gentile converts need not be circumcised or keep the Mosaic law — the single decision that turns a Jewish sect into a world religion.
- c.50–62 CE Paul's letters; the earliest Christian documents.
- c.70–100 CE The four gospels written, Mark first.
- 64, 249–251, 303–311 CE Persecutions under Nero, Decius and Diocletian.
- 312–313 CE Constantine's vision at the Milvian Bridge; the Edict of Milan legalises Christianity.
- 325 CE Council of Nicaea condemns Arianism and affirms that the Son is of the same substance as the Father.
- 380 CE Christianity becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire.
- 397, 419 CE Councils of Carthage list the New Testament canon as it now stands.
- 431, 451 CE Ephesus and Chalcedon; the Church of the East and the Oriental Orthodox churches separate.
- 1054 CE The Great Schism divides Rome and Constantinople over papal authority and the filioque clause.
- 1095–1291 The Crusades.
- 1378–1417 Western Schism; two and then three rival popes.
- 1517 CE Luther and the Reformation.
- 1545–63 Council of Trent; the Catholic Counter-Reformation.
- 1618–48 Thirty Years War; perhaps eight million dead in a war with religion at its core.
- 1906 Azusa Street revival; Pentecostalism begins its extraordinary global expansion.
- 1962–65 Second Vatican Council — vernacular liturgy, religious liberty, and a formal repudiation of the charge of Jewish collective guilt for the crucifixion.
- 1980s–present The centre of gravity shifts decisively to the global South. There are now more Christians in Africa than in Europe.
- 2002–present Sustained public reckoning with clerical sexual abuse across multiple denominations and countries.
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