Chapter 10: The Worlds of Christendom
Hello all! For this week's blog post, we will be discussing Chapter 10: The Worlds of Christendom.
Christian Contraction in Asia and Africa
The emergence of Islam caused the rapid spread of the Christian religion. The emergence of a cosmopolitan and transcontinental Islamic civilization was the conditions (which are mentioned in my last post, Chapter 9) that led to the contraction of Christendom in Asia and Africa leaving Europe as the principal center of the Christian Faith.
Asian Christianity
During the eight century, triumphant Muslims marked the replacement of the old religion by using pillars of a demolished Christian cathedral to construct the Grand Mosque of Sana'a in Southern Arabia. Elsewhere in the Middle East, other Jewish communities and Christian communities felt the impact of Islam. Muslim forces took over Jerusalem at the time. Syria and Persia had more concentrated populations of Christians.
African Christianity
The churches of Africa, like those of the Middle East and Asia, also found themselves on the defensive and declining face of an expanding Islam. Across coastal North Africa, widespread conversion to Islam over several centuries reduced to virtual extinction Christian communities that had earlier provided many of the martyrs and intellectuals of the early Church.
Byzantine Christendom
The Byzantine Empire reached its greatest extent under Emperor Justinian in the mid-sixth century C.E. It subsequently lost considerable territory to various Christian European powers as well as to Muslim Arab and Turkic invaders.
Christian Contraction in Asia and Africa
The emergence of Islam caused the rapid spread of the Christian religion. The emergence of a cosmopolitan and transcontinental Islamic civilization was the conditions (which are mentioned in my last post, Chapter 9) that led to the contraction of Christendom in Asia and Africa leaving Europe as the principal center of the Christian Faith.
Asian Christianity
During the eight century, triumphant Muslims marked the replacement of the old religion by using pillars of a demolished Christian cathedral to construct the Grand Mosque of Sana'a in Southern Arabia. Elsewhere in the Middle East, other Jewish communities and Christian communities felt the impact of Islam. Muslim forces took over Jerusalem at the time. Syria and Persia had more concentrated populations of Christians.
African Christianity
The churches of Africa, like those of the Middle East and Asia, also found themselves on the defensive and declining face of an expanding Islam. Across coastal North Africa, widespread conversion to Islam over several centuries reduced to virtual extinction Christian communities that had earlier provided many of the martyrs and intellectuals of the early Church.
Byzantine Christendom
The Byzantine Empire reached its greatest extent under Emperor Justinian in the mid-sixth century C.E. It subsequently lost considerable territory to various Christian European powers as well as to Muslim Arab and Turkic invaders.
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