Spread of christianity
Yudelka Rodriguez
Mar 24th, 2014
Prof. D’Erizans
Week #7
1. What factors accounted for the rapid spread of Christianity?
Christianity stared in Jerusalem, where the romans killed Jesus trying to stop his teaching from spreading. A persecution broke down against the Jewish Christians or nazarians who were Jesus followers, causing them to run out of Jerusalem into Syria and other countries making them spread. These persecutions were one of the causes why Christianity begins to spread a few hundredth miles from the city and the establishments of churches. Paul of Tarsus a Hebrew who at first persecuted the followers of Jesus of Nazareth and violently tried to destroy the newly forming Christian church turned a missionary who evangelized the gospels of Christ. This happened after he saw the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus. Paul traveled the Mediterranean world, establishing churches around different cities, and persuading others about Jesus. Paul went to the Jewish in the synagogues and used their scriptures to explain the Jewish with Jesus was the messiah. He also went to the non-Jewish or gentile making a more rational emphasis with the idea of the resurrection. After these gospels provided by Paul, Peter and others, majority of gentiles started to believe in Christianity. The idea being spread in the gospel was that by the believing in Jesus you could restore to God. This was transcultural because people didn’t need to be Jewish to become Christian, making Christianity more available to gentiles. Christianity was also universal; there were no restrictions to become a Christian. People could be rich, plebian, uneducated, educated, poor, Chinese, privileged class etc. still could become Christians. They had to believe that Jesus arose from the dead. If you wanted to become a Christian, you had to renounce to Judaism. In some senses to be Christian was to be anti Jewish. When write about why Christianity spread, we also have to mention why roman
Mar 24th, 2014
Prof. D’Erizans
Week #7
1. What factors accounted for the rapid spread of Christianity?
Christianity stared in Jerusalem, where the romans killed Jesus trying to stop his teaching from spreading. A persecution broke down against the Jewish Christians or nazarians who were Jesus followers, causing them to run out of Jerusalem into Syria and other countries making them spread. These persecutions were one of the causes why Christianity begins to spread a few hundredth miles from the city and the establishments of churches. Paul of Tarsus a Hebrew who at first persecuted the followers of Jesus of Nazareth and violently tried to destroy the newly forming Christian church turned a missionary who evangelized the gospels of Christ. This happened after he saw the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus. Paul traveled the Mediterranean world, establishing churches around different cities, and persuading others about Jesus. Paul went to the Jewish in the synagogues and used their scriptures to explain the Jewish with Jesus was the messiah. He also went to the non-Jewish or gentile making a more rational emphasis with the idea of the resurrection. After these gospels provided by Paul, Peter and others, majority of gentiles started to believe in Christianity. The idea being spread in the gospel was that by the believing in Jesus you could restore to God. This was transcultural because people didn’t need to be Jewish to become Christian, making Christianity more available to gentiles. Christianity was also universal; there were no restrictions to become a Christian. People could be rich, plebian, uneducated, educated, poor, Chinese, privileged class etc. still could become Christians. They had to believe that Jesus arose from the dead. If you wanted to become a Christian, you had to renounce to Judaism. In some senses to be Christian was to be anti Jewish. When write about why Christianity spread, we also have to mention why roman