Chapter 10: The Worlds of Christendom

Chapter 10: The Worlds of Christendom
    Contraction, Expansion, and Division
        500-1300

Yao Hong was a women who helped with the spread of Christianity in China. As she decided to become christian after finding out that her husband was having an affair with another women.

Christianity began to spread throughout other Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, and parts of India. It was also being seen in the non-muslim regions of Africa during the twentieth century. By the early twenty-first century "over 60 percent of the world's Christians lived in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. Leaving Europe and North America with less christians than that of Asia, Africa, or Latin America.

Events that led to the increase in christianity include: Islam. This is because with the introduction of Islam led to the rapid spread across Afro-eursia and then at the same time there was the creation of a large and powerful Arab empire, the emergence of a cosmopolitan and transcontinental islamic civilization. Thus leaving Europe "as the principal center of the Christian faith" (411)

With the church and state being tied together, the relationship became known as ceasaropapism. This lead to the emperor becoming both the "Caesar", as the head of the state, and the pope as the head of the church. However this was difficult to keep separate and it lead to the church generally being treated as a government department.

Eastern Orthodox Christianity had a pervasive influence on every aspect of the Byzantine life as it legitimated the supreme and absolute authority of the emperor as he was a "God-anoited ruler, a reflection of the glory of God on earth" (418)

After the falling of the empire, the church became what filled in, later becoming known as "Roman Catholic" and with this it took over some of its political, administrative, educational, and welfare functions.

I find this chapter to be interesting as it discusses the relationship between church and state. As it justifies the way the emperors were almost untouchable.

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