https://padlet.com/jamesbwood2/ikcn8kosst70zsrt en-us 2023-02-10 12:43:48 UTC 2023-02-10 22:56:48 UTC hello@padlet.com jamesbwood2 https://padlet.com/jamesbwood2/ikcn8kosst70zsrt/wish/2476369568 In 313 CE, the emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which granted Christianity and as well as most other religions legal status that let people practice them freely. While this was an important development in the history of Christianity, it was not a total replacement of traditional Roman beliefs with Christianity.]]> 2023-02-10 12:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jamesbwood2/ikcn8kosst70zsrt/wish/2476369568 jamesbwood2 https://padlet.com/jamesbwood2/ikcn8kosst70zsrt/wish/2476374839 In the time of the Middle Ages, known as the Dark Ages, lasting from 476 to the 15th century, the Roman Catholic Church ruled relentlessly. But it was the rise of the Holy Roman Empire, beginning with Pope Charlemagne in 800AD, uniting the church and state. The Catholic Church had taken her control of the west. With the absence of a proficient civil government, namely Rome as the head, she became the great power of temporal and spiritual matters. Up until 476, the Catholic Church took a side seat to the throne of Rome, but in the year 800, the roles became reversed, and now the Catholic Church would have control over the chair of the Emperor.  ]]> 2023-02-10 12:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jamesbwood2/ikcn8kosst70zsrt/wish/2476374839 jamesbwood2 https://padlet.com/jamesbwood2/ikcn8kosst70zsrt/wish/2476392748 During a two-year period known as the Reign of Terror, the episodes of anti-clericalism grew more violent than any in modern European history. The new revolutionary authorities suppressed the Church, abolished the Catholic monarchy, nationalized Church property, exiled 30,000 priests, and killed hundreds more.]]> 2023-02-10 13:14:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jamesbwood2/ikcn8kosst70zsrt/wish/2476392748 jamesbwood2 https://padlet.com/jamesbwood2/ikcn8kosst70zsrt/wish/2476997701 Christianity expanded throughout the empire, launching the era of the state church of the Roman Empire. The Emperor Constantine, sincerely converted to Christianity in 312 AD. His formal conversion later in the year of 312 is almost fully celebrated among his people as some still believed in the roman gods.  Despite that it was claimed he wasn't baptized only until his deathbed by the Arian bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia in 337.]]> 2023-02-10 22:36:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jamesbwood2/ikcn8kosst70zsrt/wish/2476997701 jamesbwood2 https://padlet.com/jamesbwood2/ikcn8kosst70zsrt/wish/2477002796 The First Great Awakening was a wave of religious enthusiasm among Protestants that swept the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American religion. Jonathan Edwards, perhaps most powerful intellectual in colonial America, was a key leader and after that George Whitefield came over from England and made many converts. The Great Awakening emphasized the traditional Reformed virtues of Godly preaching, rudimentary liturgy, and a deep sense of personal guilt and redemption by Christ Jesus. It resulted from powerful preaching that deeply affected listeners with a deep sense of personal guilt and salvation by Christ. Pulling away from ritual and ceremony, the Great Awakening made religion personal to the average person]]> 2023-02-10 22:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jamesbwood2/ikcn8kosst70zsrt/wish/2477002796 jamesbwood2 https://padlet.com/jamesbwood2/ikcn8kosst70zsrt/wish/2477006200 In 2020,  it was estimated the number of Christians worldwide to be around 2.38 billion. According to various scholars and sources, high birth rates and conversions in the Global South were cited as the reasons for the Christian population growth. Today Christianity is a faith that may people worldwide follow.]]> 2023-02-10 22:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jamesbwood2/ikcn8kosst70zsrt/wish/2477006200