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Christianity In The Roman Empire Essay

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Introduction Christianity is the most influential and dominant religion in today's world. In the 3rd century, Christianity was one of the most hated and minor religion in the Roman empire. At that time, there was only 10% of the population who followed Christianity. Despite all this hatred, in few hundred years, Christianity achieved a status of the official state religion of the Roman empire. This is really surprising that in few hundred years, minor religion became so influential and developed in the empire who hated it the most. It will be really interesting to know how this transformation occurred. The reason given for the expansion was that Christianity was provided suitable context to grow in whereas there were other religions too that were present in Rome such as state religion, mystery religion and quasi-religious philosophies who have the same context. However, these religions have no existence after the establishment of Christianity. This essay will focus on the reasons behind Romans abandoning their own god and accepting Christianity.

Growth of early Christianity Christianity was born in the Rome but Christians were never welcomed in the Roman Empire. The earliest church was considered illegal and …show more content…

During this period, many civil wars and battles occurred due to which many emperors got killed, some of them were in favour of Christianity such as emperor Philips. He was interested in Christianity whereas Decius the emperor after Philips didn’t favoured Christianity at all. In fact, he ordered Rome citizens to accept emperor divinity and they also should have received the certificate as a proof that they agreed to this. The person who was without a certificate will be persecuted. However, this idea failed to eradicate

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