Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One Migrations and Encounters
- Part Two Trade, Exchange, and Production
- Part Three Religion and Religious Change
- 13 The scholarly discovery of religion in early modern times
- 14 Christianity in Europe and overseas
- 15 Islam in the early modern world
- 16 Religious change in East Asia
- Part Four Questions of Method
- Index
- References
14 - Christianity in Europe and overseas
from Part Three - Religion and Religious Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One Migrations and Encounters
- Part Two Trade, Exchange, and Production
- Part Three Religion and Religious Change
- 13 The scholarly discovery of religion in early modern times
- 14 Christianity in Europe and overseas
- 15 Islam in the early modern world
- 16 Religious change in East Asia
- Part Four Questions of Method
- Index
- References
Summary
Armenian Christianity represented a member of the Eastern Christian churches. As the most ancient Christian national Church, Armenian Christianity claimed a strong presence in Jerusalem, although an independent Armenia had fallen to Mongol attacks and was divided between the Ottoman and Safavid empires during the early modern era. The minority and stable conditions of the Eastern Christian churches and the decline of Greek Orthodoxy presented a sharp contrast to the global expansion of Latin Christianity and the Russian Orthodox Church. A century after the Reformation, Christian Europe was permanently divided between Catholics and Protestants. A marked distinction in Protestantism was its ecclesiology. Born out of a deep anti-clericalism, the Reformation forswore allegiance to the papacy and created a laicized Protestant Christianity that wrested control of religion from clerical to political authority. Post-Tridentine Catholicism manifests increased religious vocations, revival of popular devotions and a new wave of sanctity.
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- The Cambridge World History , pp. 334 - 357Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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