Religion:Pan-Christianity
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The Church of the East at its largest extent during the Middle Ages.
In the Middle Ages, efforts were made in order to establish a single Christian state of Pan-Christianity by uniting the countries within Christendom.[1][2] Christian nationalism may have played a role in this era in which Christians felt the impulse to recover lands in which Christianity flourished.[3] After the rise of Islam, certain parts of North Africa, East Asia, Southern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East lost Christian control.[4] In response, Christians across national borders mobilized militarily and a "wave of Christian reconquest achieved the recovery of Spain, Portugal, and southern Italy, but was unable to recover North Africa nor—from a Christian point of view, most painful of all—the Holy Land of Christendom."[4]
See also
- Antidisestablishmentarianism
- Christian nationalism
- Christian state
- Christian Reconstructionism
- History of Christian flags
- Theonomy
- Pan-Islamism
References
- ↑ Snyder, Louis L. (1990) (in en). Encyclopedia of Nationalism. St. James Press. p. 282. ISBN 978-1-55862-101-5. "Major religions in the past, especially Christianity, have attempted to include all their adherents in a large union, but they have not been successful. Throughout most of the Middle Ages in Western Europe, attempts were made again and again to unite all the Christian world into a kind of Pan-Christianity, which would combine all Christians in a secular-religious state as a successor to the Roman Empire."
- ↑ Snyder, Louis Leo (1984) (in en). Macro-nationalisms: A History of the Pan-movements. Greenwood Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-313-23191-9. "Throughout the better part of the Middle Ages, elaborate attempts were made to create what was, in effect, a Pan-Christianity, an effort to unite "all" the Western Christian world into a successor state of the Roman Empire."
- ↑ (in en) Parole de l'Orient, Volume 30. Université Saint-Esprit. 2005. p. 488.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lewis, Bernard Ellis; Churchill, Buntzie Ellis (2008) (in en). Islam: The Religion and the People. Pearson Prentice Hall. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-13-271606-2.
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