27/04/2015 · Any serious and unbiased observer of social development will acknowledge that “religion has played a leading role in directing the course of history.” 9 Christianity was sociologically pivotal in the development of the West in the sense that it provided the forms of thought without which those institutions defining the West would likely never have come to …

01/02/2017 · Throughout this almost 1,600 years of existence, Christianity influenced the Western world in many ways. The Inculcation of Liberty and Justice. It is said that the virtues of liberty and justice enjoyed by the Western societies are both a product of Christianity, and this is perhaps one of the greatest influences.

The Western view of the Christian past, however, is particularly artificial—it is a rather a "whopping lie," as the modern idiom would have it, if only because it ignores the historical experience of more than half of the Christian world, the Christian East, from which Western Christianity itself derives!

Christianity in the West was forged in the fires of conflict and tumult, and it brought forth both creativity and violence. It echoed with calls for God’s world to be transformed, it inspired the most sublime art and architecture, yet it also revealed the power of the union of …

Eastern and western Christianity: from the 6th century: The story of Christianity for the next 1000 years is largely shaped by the way the two halves of the Roman empire, east and west, cope with the challenges posed in about500. The emperors, based in Constantinople, continue to assert their authority in the east.