Romans and the Christian Worldview

Romans and the Christian Worldview

Introduction

We do not know exactly when, where and how Christianity arose. This, however, applies to any historical religion. Whether we take Buddhism, Islam or Christianity - a historian trying to find a specific picture of their origin, is equally difficult position. Religion has always appears as a spontaneous movement, whose roots are deeply hidden in the social psychology of a certain age. The role of the individual is a particular person is very low. Every religion is born in a tense social climate that before the emergence of a particular religious doctrine is. This is - the atmosphere of deep dissatisfaction with the outside world, the consciousness of human weakness and inability to complete it on their own to change the terms of this life. It - Hot belief in superhuman strength, which alone can help a person. This is - the atmosphere of eager expectation, the atmosphere of miracles, signs and legends are born out of nowhere. In such circumstances, any particular fact instantly enveloped the cover of the myth. Take it out of the cover is extremely difficult, almost impossible.

Discussion

The Background

The easiest way to figure out the issue of socio-political and ideological assumptions of Christianity. It arose in the I. n. e., when, after the defeat of the revolutionary movement of the II - I c. BC. e. lower strata of Roman society were covered by deep despair and apathy. They have no clear class consciousness and therefore there was no future, no hope for the future. Slaves, ruining the peasantry, the urban impoverished mass were unable to break the terrible oppression of the slave of Rome. Such a state of social depression, decline, hopelessness, characteristic of the era of the reaction of the first century of the empire, was very favorable to the development of religious sentiment. These currents in the first place had to cover it public bottoms. "Where was out - Engels - where was the salvation of the enslaved, oppressed and fallen into poverty - the output that is common to all of these different groups of people with alien or even opposed to each other interests and yet to find such a solution was needed to ensure that they were all covered by one great revolutionary movement.

The Emergence of Christianity and Its Spread

The sum of these representations and was the ideological content of Christianity. Recently, as an independent for apparently started to take shape in the middle of the I century AD It gradually became separated from other oriental cults and acquired its own organizational forms. It's happened before in the cities of the eastern half of the empire in Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, from where the new religion spread quickly to the West.

The oldest monument of Christian literature - "Apocalypse" John - is addressed to the seven Christian communities of Asia Minor. Relationship of early Christianity to Judaism suggests that the new religion for the first time began to take shape among the Jewish communities ...