Christianity is the general name of all sects that take Jesus Christ as their savior, also known as Christianity. Christianity, Buddhism and Islam are called the three major religions.
The word "Christianity" is confused when used in Chinese mainland academic circles, and it can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Christianity in a broad sense refers to all sects that believe in Jesus Christ as their savior, including Roman Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, Protestantism and other small sects, which means Christianity in English. Christianity in a narrow sense refers to Protestantism.
Due to historical reasons, people in China have long been used to calling Protestantism Christianity, and the Protestant church in Chinese mainland has never called itself Protestantism, only Christianity or Jesus, while the Roman Catholic Church is called Catholicism and the Orthodox Church is called Orthodox Church.
brief history
Christianity originated from the Jewish community in Palestine under the Roman Empire in the 1 th century. From the 1 century to the 5th century, Christianity was founded and spread from Israel to Greek and Roman cultural areas. It is the early stage of the development of Christianity and the period when the apostles and early godfathers established the basic Christian teachings and theological theories. This period is usually called the first stage of the development of Christianity.
In 395, the Roman Empire was divided into western Rome with Italy as its center and eastern Rome with Constantinople as its capital under internal contradictions and foreign invasion. With the split between East and West Rome, Christianity began to split into Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity, until 1453, when the Eastern Roman Empire perished under the attack of Islamic Turks, which was the second stage in the history of Christianity.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Christianity