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How Did Christianity Become A Global Religion

The documents discuss how Christianity became a global religion through various means: 1) Jesus commanded his followers to spread his teachings to all nations as written in Matthew 28:19-20. 2) Paul the Apostle helped spread Christianity throughout the Roman Empire by establishing churches and writing letters to them as he traveled freely due to his Roman citizenship. 3) Constantine's conversion played a key role when he became patron of Christianity and called the Council of Nicea to establish uniform beliefs, helping Christianity become the dominant religion in the Roman Empire.

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How Did Christianity Become A Global Religion

The documents discuss how Christianity became a global religion through various means: 1) Jesus commanded his followers to spread his teachings to all nations as written in Matthew 28:19-20. 2) Paul the Apostle helped spread Christianity throughout the Roman Empire by establishing churches and writing letters to them as he traveled freely due to his Roman citizenship. 3) Constantine's conversion played a key role when he became patron of Christianity and called the Council of Nicea to establish uniform beliefs, helping Christianity become the dominant religion in the Roman Empire.

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How did Christianity become a global religion?

Boulan Park Middle School


Ross Burdette

Document 1:

Matthew 28:19-20

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the

Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the

very end of the age.”

Document 2:

Galatians 3:13-14

"Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is

everyone who is hung on a pole.”[a] 14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might

come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit."
Document 3:

Paul the Apostle (Saul of Tarsus) was a Roman citizen and prolific developer of Christian communities
around the Roman Empire. He is credited with writing 13 of the New Testament books. These books take
the forms of letters sent between himself and newly established Christian churches throughout the Roman
Empire. He was a Roman citizen and, therefore, was allowed to travel freely throughout the region.
Document 4:

CONSTANTINE'S CONVERSION
One of the most surprising Christian heroes in the entire tradition, I think, is Constantine. He is, first

of all, a successful general. He is also the son of a successful general and at the head of the army at

the West. And he's fighting another successful general, struggling for who is going to be at the top of

the heap of the very higher echelons of Roman government. What happens is that Constantine has a

vision. Luckily for the Church, there's a bishop nearby to interpret what the vision means. Constantine

ends not converting, technically, to Christianity, but becoming a patron of one particular branch of the

church.

Harold W. Attridge - The Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament Yale Divinity School

Who called the Council of Nicea?

The Emperor Constantine was the moving force in the Council and he, in effect, called it in order to

solve this dispute. He did so because at that time he had just completed his consolidation of authority

over the whole of the Roman Empire. Up until 324, he had ruled only half of the Roman Empire. And

he wanted to have uniformity of belief, or at least not major disputes within the church under his rule.

And so he was dismayed to hear of this controversy that had been raging in Alexandria for several

years before his assumption of total imperial control. And in order to dampen that controversy he

called the Council.

Allen D. Callahan - Associate Professor of New Testament, Harvard Divinity School

Document 5:

In letter between Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci (Undated)

“I feel persuaded by the many and wonderful manifestations of Divine Providence in my especial favour, that I am

the chosen instrument of God in bringing to pass a great event—no less than the conversion of millions who are

now existing in the darkness of Paganism”


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