A Very Brief History of Christianity

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1、AVeryBriefHistoryofChristianityHowtheThreeMajorBranchesCameintoBeingBranchesofChristianityChristianity:thereligionofallChristians.TherearethreemajorbranchesofChristianity:theRomanCatholicChurch(天主教),theEasternOrthodoxChurches(东正教)andProtestantChurches（新教）.TheBeginning

2、:JesusChristianhistorybeginswithJesusofNazarethBornBaptizedbyJohnBeganaministryofteaching,healingandmiracle-working.Chosethe12discipleswhomhetaughtprivately.CrucifiedbytheRomansRosefromthedeadAscendedintoheavenOneofthetwelveapostles,Paul,azealousJewhadpersecutedChrist

3、iansConvertedtothefaithWentonnumerousmissionaryjourneysthroughouttheRomanEmpireStartedchurchesthesecondandthirdcenturyAD,ChristianswerepersecutedIntheearly4thcenturyAD,theRomanemperorConstantineconvertedtoChristianity.TheChristianreligionbecamelegal.Persecutionceased.

4、TheGreatSchismTheGreatSchism(East–WestSchism)TheRomanEmpire:splitintotheWestandEastRomanempires;thechurch:WesternandEasternchurchesDifferencesinpracticesandbeliefsarosebetweenthem.Disagreementsoverthepope’sauthorityandargumentsoversomedoctrines:finalsplitin1054;hencet

5、herewereEasternOrthodoxChurchandtheRomanCatholicChurch.thePopeTheGreatSchismTheEasternOrthodoxChurchhasalwaysmaintainedthatitwastheRomanCatholicChurchthatdrewapartfromtheoriginalChristianChurch;itconsidersitselfthecontinuationoftheoriginalandtrueChurchofChrist.TheRoma

6、nCatholicChurch,ontheotherhand,considersthattheEasternChurchseparatedfromit.ThePatriarch牧首TheGreatSchismPopeLeoIXandPatriarchofConstantinopleMichaelCerulariusheightenedtheconflict.Theleadersofthetwochurchesexcommunicatedeachotherin1054.西方和东方教会领袖先后宣布将对方革出教门。TheGreatSch

7、ismIn1965,theleadersofthetwochurchescancelledtheirorderssimultaneously.HowevertheconsequencesoftheGreatSchismremain.TheReformationTheReformationwasamovementwhichemergedinthe16thcenturyasaseriesofattemptstoreformtheRomanCatholicChurchinWesternEurope.Themainfrontofthere

8、formationwasstartedbyMartinLuther.AGermanMonk,MartinLuther(1483-1546)startedareligiousmovementcalledtheReformationleadtotheb