the rise of christianity

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the rise of christianity the rise of christianity * objectives: know the basic path of jesus’s life. also, for what reasons he was executed. know the importance of paul to the spread of christianity (and what he did that was so important to the spread). know what factors helped the faith spread (both logistical, like the pax romana, and why the faith was appealing to people). know why christians were persecuted for their faith. know the importance of constantine to the rise of christianity and the effects of what he did. also, what led him to legalize it. what were the downsides of constantine? * by 63 bc, rome rules palestine. by around bc 6 – ad 6, caesar augustus is emperor and this is the world into jesus is born. * regardless of one’s belief in jesus’s divinity, it’s hard to deny that he was probably the most influential …

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gin his public preaching until he was 30. then he shook the world. preached a message of forgiveness (divine and interpersonal), a personal relationship with god, and love. became rather popular with the hoi polloi and was hailed as the messiah… israel’s savior. * neither the romans nor the jewish authorities were too comfortable with jesus’s popularity. the romans didn’t like the idea of somebody gaining power and prestige. they were a potential threat. * it didn’t help that people were thinking of him as the messiah. the christian conception of that term is different from the jewish conception at the time. for 1st century judaism, the messiah would be a political and military leader – a new king that would reunite israel and defeat its enemies (specifically the romans). naturally, the romans didn’t like such talk. * the jewish leaders, the pharisees and the sadducees, saw him as a …

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othy are to a disciple named timothy, etc. * paul even visits the acropolis in athens and argues with some stoic and epicurean philosophers. * persecution christianity slowly started spreading around the empire. aided by the pax romana and the fact that romans tended to be tolerant and accepting of other religions. they wanted to make sure they weren’t missing any gods after all. * the roman tolerance, though, was that you could worship your own gods, but you had to recognize roman ones too, including worshiping caesar. this wasn’t too big a deal for most polytheistic religions. for the monotheistic christians, it was a non-starter. * so the problem wasn’t that christians had their own god, it’s that they didn’t recognize or worship the roman gods. this was viewed as undermining roman authority. it was also seen as dangerous that people weren’t worshipping the roman gods because then the …

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opular method was for them to be killed by wild animals. a problem the romans faced is that the christians welcomed death and the chance to be martyred. they took joy in death… which the romans found unfathomably bizarre. they would even taunt the crowd to kill them. st. ignatius * some christians went to extreme lengths to avoid persecution, such as at cappadocia. this was a labyrinth of caves christians carved into a mountain and down into the ground. it was 18 stories deep and had miles of tunnels. the complex housed around 20,000 people who rarely left the underground system. was complete with living quarters, grape juicing rooms, churches, ventilation shafts, and wells. was complete with secret doorways that closed tight from the inside. * * * despite the roman attempts to use brute force to stamp out the christians, the religion continued to spread. * spread due …

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ion that would offer him forgiveness for his grievous sins (although late life baptism wasn’t uncommon). sins such as having his eldest son tried and executed because of rumors he was having an affair with his second wife fausta. then he had fausta executed because she was the apparent source of the rumors. marks a pivotal joining of church and state, although it doesn’t become the state religion until 390 under emperor theodosius. * to his great discredit, constantine also starts persecuting the jews. put restrictions on them, makes it illegal to convert to judaism. unfortunate considering the recent treatment of christians. “it was, in the first place, declared improper to follow the custom of the jews in the celebration of this holy festival, because, their hands having been stained with crime, the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded. ... let us, then, have nothing in common with …

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the rise of christianity the rise of christianity * objectives: know the basic path of jesus’s life. also, for what reasons he was executed. know the importance of paul to the spread of christianity (and what he did that was so important to the spread). know what factors helped the faith spread (both logistical, like the pax romana, and why the faith was appealing to people). know why christians were persecuted for their faith. know the importance of constantine to the rise of christianity and the effects of what he did. also, what led him to legalize it. what were the downsides of constantine? * by 63 bc, rome rules palestine. by around bc 6 – ad 6, caesar augustus …

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