Christianity spread in the Roman Empire because of how much they were persecuted. This may sound weird, but it meant that there were only real Christians, no one who wasnt one claimed to be one. This kept Christianity nice and healthy, unlike another time when you were forced by the Church to be Christian, and this was when Christianity went off tracks for awhile.
Also, people were amazed that Christians would give up their lives so horribly for their God and so the Romans started to think that if they would give up their lives for this 'god' then there must be something real in this faith.
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1. Romans built roads every where in the Roman Empire which allowed for Christianity to spread.
2. Greek society was focused on spreading new ideas.
People can add more to this, but overall the timing of Jesus' coming, and the presence of the Roman world as well as the Greek world, shows God's amazing power.
The Christians developed a clergy, which besides officiating ceremonies, undertook to convert pagans. There was a missionary zeal. The pagan gods were indifferent to the human plight and pagan regions were about honoring them by offering them sacrifices to appease them (natural disasters were through to be caused by the wrath of the gods who had not been honoured. Jesus, instead, was compassionate and offered the promise of salvation. The egalitarian ideals of the Christians were appealing, particularly to women.
Before the only true large scale persecution of the Christians there were only a small scale few and sort-lived persecutions. The Romans mostly kept their policy of religious tolerance . after this the emperor Constantine polices favoured the Christians. After him all but one of the emperors were Christians. Thus Christianity received imperial endorsements. These emperors introduced anti-pagan legislation which made it more difficult to practice pagan religions. The emperors Gratian and Theodosius issued an edict which made mainstream Christianity the sole legitimate religion of the empire and banned dissident Christian doctrines. It did not ban paganism; however, Theodosius introduced further laws which made pagan practices effectively illegal. He lso promoted or condoned the destruction of pagan temples and shrines. There was also a persecution of pagans. the measures of these Christian emperors played an important part in Christianity becoming the dominant religion in the empire.
Until the fourth-century reign of Emperor Constantine, Christianity was still very much a minority religion, although growing strongly. Three factors then led to Christianity overtaking paganism and becoming the universal religion of empire:
The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by Paul who traveled across the Roman Empire preaching in some of the empire’s most important cities. Other followers of Jesus helped in spreading the gospel.
People's inspiration from the courage of those who were persecuted for the Christian faith.
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The Byzantine Empire viewed religion as an integral part of the state, with the Emperor as the head of both the political and religious affairs. In contrast, the Roman Empire tolerated a wide range of religious beliefs and practices, and while the Emperor held religious authority, it was not as closely intertwined with the state. Additionally, the Byzantine Empire placed a strong emphasis on Byzantine Christianity, specifically the Eastern Orthodox Church, while the Roman Empire encompassed a wider variety of religious beliefs, including Christianity, Paganism, and Judaism.
Christianity was a divisive factor in the Roman empire. It caused unrest not only between the Christians and the pantheists, but between the Christians themselves as the early Christians had several sects and they were always bickering among themselves.
Some historians believe that Constantine's interest in Christianity was because he saw it as a potential force for unity in the Roman Empire, with its strong discipline and well-defined hierarchy. He was dismayed to find that Christianity was not at all united even within itself, and eventually found that Christianity did not help him create a united empire. In any case, the Roman Empire only remained united until 394 CE, just 14 years after Christianity became the official religion of empire. The split was not directly caused by Christianity, just the size and unwieldly nature of the empire. The fall of Rome is conventionally dated to 476 CE, less than 100 years after Christianity became the official religion of empire. The former empire of Rome began to fragment into kingdoms, and Christianity began to disappear in the provinces. The Eastern Empire survived much longer, but was destroyed in the aftermath of the sack of Constantinople by Western Crusaders during the Fourth Crusade. This fragmentation can be very much blamed on the Crusades, and therefore on a Christian enterprise authorised by the Pope, although the sacking of Constantinople was outside his control.
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The death of Alexander the Great caused his unified empire to be split three ways under his top generals. This caused a great deal of unrest in what was Alexander's empire.
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that was the time when the Romans pretty much ruled the known world they were the most powerful country of the time and caused the beginning of Christianity.
The Byzantine Empire viewed religion as an integral part of the state, with the Emperor as the head of both the political and religious affairs. In contrast, the Roman Empire tolerated a wide range of religious beliefs and practices, and while the Emperor held religious authority, it was not as closely intertwined with the state. Additionally, the Byzantine Empire placed a strong emphasis on Byzantine Christianity, specifically the Eastern Orthodox Church, while the Roman Empire encompassed a wider variety of religious beliefs, including Christianity, Paganism, and Judaism.
Constantine was Emperor of Eastern Rome at the time that the Roman Empire split in half.This split was caused by Christianity, and Constantine was actually the first Christian ruler of Rome. The capitol of the Byzantine Empire (as which it was called) was Constantinople.
Christianity transformed the religious map of the Roman Empire. It became the religion of the masses of the empire in Late Antiquity. Mainstream Christianity (the early form of the Catholic and the Orthodox churches) became the state religion of the empire, whilst other Christian sects were branded heretic and persecuted, particularly Arian Christianity, which was popular around the empire. Catholicism at that time was called Latin or Western Christianity and it was the religion of the western part of the empire. The Orthodox Church was called Greek or Eastern Christianity and was the religion of the eastern part of the empire. The pagan Roman religion did not disappear, but it became sidelined and was persecuted.
Christianity was a divisive factor in the Roman empire. It caused unrest not only between the Christians and the pantheists, but between the Christians themselves as the early Christians had several sects and they were always bickering among themselves.
Variation within societies can be caused by factors such as individual differences, cultural diversity, socioeconomic disparities, and historical events. These factors can lead to differences in beliefs, values, behaviors, and opportunities among members of a society.
St. Paul the Apostle was arrested multiple times for spreading Christianity, which was seen as a threat by local authorities and the Roman Empire. He faced persecution for his beliefs and teachings that went against traditional Roman religious practices.
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The main reason that Christianity has prospered is that God has caused it to prosper. Another reason is that the early Christians were ready to die a horrible, painful death rather than renounce their beliefs; which drew people by the thousands(which is the reason that the Chinese church is so huge today).
The empire split into small kingdoms. These kingdoms were overrun by the Hunas or other Central Asian nomads. Which caused the empire to end about 535.