Christianity is on the threshold of the new millennium
Each millennium AD forms its paradigm of world Christianity. The first of these was the period of its formation as the only world religion, which was largely facilitated by the activities of the Fathers of the Church of the Third Centuries and the seven Ecumenical Councils. The second millennium ca...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Russian |
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Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion (UARR)
2005-09-01
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Series: | Українське Pелігієзнавство |
Online Access: | https://uars.info/index.php/uars/article/view/1612 |
Summary: | Each millennium AD forms its paradigm of world Christianity. The first of these was the period of its formation as the only world religion, which was largely facilitated by the activities of the Fathers of the Church of the Third Centuries and the seven Ecumenical Councils. The second millennium can be called the period of its confessionalization, which began after the famous split of 1054 into Orthodoxy and Catholicism and intensified significantly after the emergence of Protestantism in the sixteenth century. We now have over a thousand (if not more) confessional varieties of Christianity
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ISSN: | 2306-3548 2617-9792 |