CH. 10: Christendom

  Christendom historically refers to the "Christian world" specifically the Christian states, Christian majority countries and places in which Christianity is the dominant religion. In a historical meaning, this was during which the Christian world represented a geopolitical power opposing paganism and especially Muslim belief.


    There are many similarities yet differences between Islamic and Christian belief.  These are the two biggest religions in the world with Christians at 2.3 billion and Muslims at 1.8 billion world wide (Hackett, Conrad.  McClendon, David.  “Christians remain world’s largest religious group, but they are declining in Europe.”  pewresearch.org  April 5, 2017).  With both religious groups consisting of over 50% of the religious world population. Beyond the theological debates, political and cultural differences generated division even among the orthodox. The bishop of Rome gradually emerged as the dominant leader, or the pope, of the Church in the western half of the empire, but his authority was being contested in the East. This division contributed to the later split between the Latin, or Roman Catholic, and the Greek, or Eastern Orthodox, branches of Christendom, a division that continues to the present.  So the Christian world was not only geographically growing but also politically and theologically become more diverse and highly used.


    Christianity was able to reach Afro-Eurasian with flourishing communities in Anatolia, Arabia, Egypt, North Africa, Ethiopia, Nubia, Syria, Armenia, Persia, India, and China, as well as Europe. But radical changes reshaped the Christian world as African and Asian outposts were almost non existent or were brought down to minimal as Christianity became mainly a European phenomenon.


    According to one Byzantine account, “They sacked the sacred places and trampled on divine things . . . they tore children from their mothers . . . and they defiled virgins in the holy chapels, fearing neither God’s anger nor man’s vengeance.”  These were during the crusades of the Western passing through the Eastern branches of the church but ended up in looting, invasion, raiding, and this created more tension which became unrepairable.


Picture Sources & Additional References:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/05/christians-remain-worlds-largest-religious-group-but-they-are-declining-in-europe/


https://www.facebook.com/Conflicting-The-Perspectives-Between-Judaism-and-Christendom-255772005175668/


https://www.patheos.com/blogs/lostinaoneacrewood/2019/05/13/new-christendom-fails-to-challenge-the-state/

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