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-	[[Image:Tommaso.Laureti.Triumph.of.Christianity.jpg|left|thumb|200px|This page '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is part of the [[Christianity]] series.<br><Small>Illustration: ''[[Triumph of Christianity]]'' (detail) by [[Tommaso Laureti]] (1530-1602.)</small>]]	+	#REDIRECT[[Christianity ]]
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-	"The poor wretches <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Christianity|Christians]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> have convinced themselves, first and foremost, that they are going to be immortal and live for all time, in consequence of which they despise death and even willingly give themselves into custody; most of them. Furthermore, their first lawgiver persuaded them that they are all brothers of one another after they have transgressed once, for all by denying the Greek gods and by worshipping that crucified sophist himself and living under his laws. Therefore they despise all things indiscriminately and consider them common property, receiving such doctrines traditionally without any definite evidence. So if any charlatan and trickster, able to profit by occasions, comes among them, he quickly acquires sudden wealth by imposing upon simple folk." --[[Lucian]], ''[[Passing of Peregrinus|The Death of Peregrine]]''	+
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-	The '''history of Christianity''' concerns the [[Christianity|Christian religion]], its followers and the [[Christian Church|Church]] with its various [[Christian denomination|denominations]], from the [[Christianity in the 1st century|first century]] to the [[Christianity in the 21st century|present]].	+
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-	Christianity emerged in the [[Levant]] (now Palestine and Israel) in the mid-1st century [[Common Era|CE]].	+
-	[[Early centers of Christianity|Christianity spread]] initially from [[Jerusalem in Christianity|Jerusalem]] throughout the [[Near East]], into places such as [[Syria]], [[Assyria]], [[Mesopotamia]], [[Phoenicia]], [[Asia Minor]], [[Jordan]] and [[Egypt]]. In the 4th century it was successively adopted as the [[state religion]] by [[Arsacid Dynasty of Armenia|Armenia]] in 301, [[Caucasian Iberia|Georgia]] in 319, and the [[State church of the Roman Empire|Roman Empire]] in 380.	+
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-	Christianity became common to all of Europe in the [[Middle Ages]] and expanded throughout the world during Europe's [[Age of Exploration]] from the Renaissance onwards to become the [[major religious groups|world's largest religion]]. Today there are 2 billion Christians, one third of humanity. Christianity divided into the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] in the [[East–West Schism|Great Schism]] of 1054. The [[Protestant Reformation]] split the Roman Catholic Church into many different [[Christian denominations|denominations]].	+
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-	==See also==	+
-	* [[Christianity and Paganism]]	+
-	* [[History of Christian theology]]	+
-	* [[History of the Roman Catholic Church]]	+
-	* [[History of the Eastern Orthodox Church]]	+
-	* [[History of Protestantism]]	+
-	* [[History of Oriental Orthodoxy]]	+
-	* [[Christianization]]	+
-	* [[Timeline of Christianity]]	+
-	* [[Roman Catholic Church]]	+
-	* [[Eastern Orthodox Church]]	+
-	* [[Protestantism]]	+
-	* [[Rise of Christianity during the Fall of Rome]]	+
-	* [[Timeline of the Roman Catholic Church]]	+
-	* [[Restoration Movement]]	+
-	* [[Timeline of Christian missions]]	+
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