I need some help with Christian history?

Question

My son has a project to do in school on Christian history.

I need to know it's early history, Major people involved, how it spread and it's connection with the world today.

Also what is a bibliography?

I don't expect everyone to answer all of this but just to give me answers to some of it and ideas where to look for the answers.

Thank you.

Thanks for all the answers, I have plenty to look over now.

Last week he had to do a project on the greece gods, that was easy and fun. This week its about the seven wonders of the world, also easy and fun.

But the history of Christianity is like trying to do report on the history of the world, it covers alot of time and people. Thanks again :)

Answer 1

COnstintine forced the relgion on the Roman people when he himself was a non believer. He was the first emporer in the "Holy Roman Empire". Read a book kids.

Answer 2

The origin of the Christian religion is the Catholic church!

Some have suggested the first pope was the disciple Peter.

It was after the conversion of Constintine that the religion of Rome became Christianity.

Where the religion really took off was during the time of the Crusades. 1189-1311 AD This was were soldiers would ride into a town on horse back and put a sword to a persons throat and say convert or die. Around the same time the church was also active in the Inquisitions!
In the Inquisitions anyone that ideas or views different from that of the church were labeled a heretic. The penalty for this label was torture and or death. That death was commonly being burned alive!

It is a vew violent and grusome history! One that turns my stomach! But then the idea of burning someone alive is a very Christian based idea after all their God does it so why shouldn't they! Make me sick!

Answer 3

I'd recommend getting a book from a library for early Christian history. It would take too much time to give a detailed early chiristian history on here.

Major people:
In order of when they make contributions:
Zachariah
Mary
Joseph
John the Baptist (baptised Jesu and died sometime within Jesus' ministry)
Jesus (30-33 AD or something similar did his ministry)
Paul (40-something - 62 AD wrote letters or epistles)
Luke (followed Paul around a lot, wrote a gospel and Acts)
Mark (wrote a gospel, believed to have followed Peter)
Matthew (1 of 12 original disciples, wrote a gospel)
John (1 of 12 original disciples, wrote a gospel, 3 letters)
James, Jude
Peter (1 of 12 original disciples, wrote 2 letters)

It spread through word of mouth, good deeds, and the good news.

A bibliography is a list of books, or internet sources that you used for the project. Here is information on how to make a bibliography. http://www.fcps.edu/KeyMS/library/bibliography.html

If you need more information I can give more, I'm just short for time at the moment.

Answer 4

Get books or Internet look up info on:

the Roman empire pre 5th century.

roman emperors Decius and Diocletian.

Saint Paul, who laid the foundations of christian theology and played a key role in the transformantio of Christianity from a Jewish sect to a world religion

Emperor Contantine I in the early 4th century.

The councils of Nicaea (in 325) and Constantinople (in 381), and Saint Anthanasius.

The council of Ephesus (in 431)

the condemnation of Monophysitism and the alienation of the churches of Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia and Armenia and the Islamic invation of the 7th century

Orthodox Church

Saint Augustine

Pope Gregory I

the history of the Roman Catholic Church

the Crusades

16h century Reformantion

Martin Luther

John Calvin

Protestantism

Anglican Church

19th and 20th century separation of church and state theology

A bibliography is a listing of the sources you used for informantion on the report you are doing. Do an internet search for specific ways to cite books, magazine, and web-sites or ask the teacher. It usually starts, Author, article used, Book or magazine article from, copywrite, pages used.

Good luck!!

Answer 5

Well... let's start with the invention of the printing press; Guttenberg (not steve).

that allowed for the bible to be widely distributed. of course, we can also thank King James (that british guy) who commissioned the text as we now know it.

As far as spreading the word of Christianity, if you were to research that you would find countless attrocities in trying to beat the 'savages' into submission and 'christianizing' them.

A bibliography is a listing of sources which he will use in his paper. Cite authors last name first, initial, year published, title of article/title of book, title of magazine if applicable or publisher and location published, and finally page numbers if appropriate. It would look like this.

Christ, J. (2005). How Christianity Destroyed Culture. Journal of Common Sense, 1 (8), 339-400.

however, if you look up bibliography examples on google, others will come up.

Answer 6

Contrary to what most people think, Constantine had nothing to do with the early church. He started the "Catholic Church" which is not the real church. In fact, he was really the first pope. But he had nothing to do with the real christian church.

The real church spread by way of Paul the Apostle to Italy and Spain. From there, it spread to England, and then came to America by way of the early settlers.

Hope that helps some.

Answer 7

Historically, many people and practises were said to comprise Christianity. If you want the historical perspective, all the sources listed by other answerers will suffice. It includes all those who claimed to be Christians and claimed to practise Christianity. To know the truth of it, you need to use, as examples, the actions of the early Christians as spoken of in the new testament. Any conduct that is contrary to that is not Christian. Keep in mind that ANYONE can claim to be a Christian. If I wanted to discredit the Christian faith, I could do it best by claiming to be a Christian and committing atrocities in the name of Christianity.

Answer 8

Foxes Book of Martyrs, is a good place to start. Also, look up Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, and John Wycliff.

A bibliography is a list of references for a paper or book.

Answer 9

The very best source & it should be acceptable to any school or college. WWW.stephen-knapp.com/articles_to_read.htm Christianity has its roots in the vedas,siddha yoga and hinduism. King constantine and the council pf churches Left out much of Jesus's teachings deleted much and mistranslated much when they compiled the first bible, in 365AD, and later the catholic church had all referance to Jesus's ties to india removed. I have never read it but the koran prior to 365 Ad would probably be a more accurate history than the bible.

Answer 10

Christianity didn't take off full tilt until the Roman Emperor Constantine forced it on the Roam Empire. That is a good starting point, it only gets worse from there.

Answer 11

"Christianity" started with Jesus Christ. All those who were his followers were called his disciples early on, and then later the nick-name for his followers was made, which is Christians.

Pretty simple, really.
And so you know, Christ didn't found the Catholic church. That came through people who took bits and pieces from the teachings of the Apostlest, after they were killed. They never recieved the power to act in God's name directly from Christ because that went with the Apostles when they died. Read about the Apostacy mentioned throughout the scriptures.

Also the library will probably have books about Christian history, but be careful which books you check out because a lot of them are false or misinterpreted representations on the topic.