Christianity

**Christianity** is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on Jesus Christ's life and teachings. Its followers, known as Christians, believe that Jesus is the Christ, whose arrival as the Messiah was predicted in the Hebrew Bible.

## Description

**Christianity's** Western and Eastern branches, as well as its teachings about justification and the nature of salvation, ecclesiology, ordination, and Christology, remain culturally distinct. The Catholic Church, Protestantism, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Oriental Orthodoxy are the four biggest streams of **Christianity**, with diverse endeavors toward union. Their creeds usually accept Jesus as the Son of God—the logos incarnated—who ministered, suffered, and died on a crucifixion, but rose from the dead for the salvation of mankind; this is referred to in scripture as the gospel, which means "good news." The four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John describe Jesus' life and teachings.

From late antiquity through the Middle Ages, **Christianity** and Christian principles played an important role in the development of Western civilisation, notably in Europe. Despite a drop in devotion in the West, **Christianity** remains the region's leading religion, with around 70% of the people identifying as Christian. **Christianity** is spreading in Africa and Asia, the two most populous continents on the planet. Christians are the world's most persecuted religious community, particularly in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.

**Christianity** emerged in the first century as a Second Temple Judaic group in the Roman province of Judea. Despite persecution, Jesus' apostles and followers expanded throughout the Levant, Europe, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, North Africa, Transcaucasia, Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia. It quickly drew gentile God-fearers, resulting in a break from Jewish practices, and following the Fall of Jerusalem, which destroyed Temple-based Judaism, **Christianity** gradually broke from Judaism.

By the Edict of Milan, Emperor Constantine the Great authorized **Christianity** in the Roman Empire, subsequently convening the Council of Nicaea, where Early Christianity was unified into what would become the Roman Empire's State religion. The "Great Church" refers to the early history of **Christianity's** undivided church before significant schisms. The Church of the East broke after the Council of Ephesus, and Oriental Orthodoxy split after the Council of Chalcedon, over Christological issues, while the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church parted in the East-West Schism, particularly over the authority of the bishop of Rome.

Similarly, during the Reformation period, Protestantism broke into several factions from the Latin Catholic Church over theological and ecclesiological disagreements, most notably over the subject of justification and the primacy of the bishop of Rome. Following the Age of Discovery, missionary efforts carried Christianity throughout the Americas, Oceania, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the rest of the world.

## Characters Involved in Christianity

* Billy The Ghost Hunter
* Dante Alighieri
* Ed Warren
* Embera
* God
* Holy Spirit
* Jeanne d'Arc
* Jesus Christ
* Judas Iscariot
* Loraine Warren
* Martin Luther
* Mary Magdalene
* Mother Normous
* Saint John

## Trivia

* Over *31.2%* of people around the world are Christians.
* **Christianity** actually has lots of denominations but is often divided into three main branches, which are Catholicism, Orthodox, and Protestantism.
	+ Sometimes the religion is divided even further into 5 main branches which are the Church of the East, Oriental Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Protestantism. Within these branches, there are even more denominations. About 50% of all Christians are Catholics and hold the Pope as their highest spiritual leader.
* In **Christianity**, Sunday is regarded as the holy day of the week and this is also when people should rest.
* Easter is the biggest holiday within **Christianity** and in addition to family dinners, large masses are held in churches around the world.