Christianity

Christianity

The religion that is selected here to be the point of discussion is Christianity. The basics of Christianity are discussed here from the basic perspective.

Christianity

A religion founded by Jesus Christ, born in Bethlehem or in Nazareth, a town near Jerusalem. It centers around the notions of love and eternal salvation that, intertwined in lasting tension with the Greco-Roman tradition, contributed to shape many characteristics of Western world culture such as the ideal of progress, the ideas of temporal passage, ethical meliorism, and the significant role of rational knowledge in life, together with the associated conceptions and development of science and technology. Christianity's sacred book is the Bible. Its history can be divided into the following periods:

Another movement challenging the early Church was montanism, initially led by Montanus who, in CE 156, announced that the dispensation of the Holy Spirit had begun and he was going to be the Holy Spirit's mouthpiece. Montanism was an otherworldly movement that accused the Church of moral laxity and apathy, and taught moral purity, post biblical revelation, and the imminent end of the world. As a result, the Church became Catholic, i.e. came to terms with the world, adapting to it.

Prominent among the doctrines of Judaism accepted by Christianity is that humans were created in the image of God. This notion, as well as that of likeness, played a significant role in Platonic adaptations to Christianity. A different but related doctrine is that of vestigia Dei, or God's vestiges. Vestiges are not images, whose likeness is supposed to be reasonably close to the original. By contrast, vestiges could be but slight similarities. For example, triads in the universe were examples of God's vestiges evidencing the Trinity.

Gospel of Jesus

Gospels are a special kind of biography. Their primary concern is not to relate the life of Jesus ...