Concurrent History of the Organized Church Institution, Divisions Among Christians, the Rise and Influence of Islam, and the Present State of the West

This page contains a top-level outline of a long series of posts that will show how errors and divisions that crept into Christianity before Muhammad influenced Muhammad either positively--leading to the his adoption of exaggerated forms of these errors--or negatively-- leading to exaggerated reactions against them. Islamic versions of these errors or reactive teachings then influenced Medieval Christianity. The combination of the original errors and Islamic influences then combined with European politics to lead to the Crusades, the Reformation and its wars, and the modern West and Western Church as we know them.

• Brief Introduction to the Politicization of Christianity and its Consequences (Outline)
• Truths of the Earliest Christianity that Mutated Leading to Formation of Later Divisions (Outline)
• Departure of Organized Christianity from its Roots, Second through Sixth Centuries CE (Outline)
• The Effect of Organized Christianity’s Early Departures from its Roots Upon the Rise of Islam (Outline)
• Negative Changes in Medieval Christianity due to Expansion of Previous Errors and Absorption of Concepts from Islam
• The Relationships Between Early Changes in Christianity, Concepts Absorbed from Islam, and the Reformation and its Wars
• The History of Christian Divisions, and its Relationship to Secular History, from the Reformation to the Present

• Old Version Historical Outline Posts (Retained for the Present):
  • From Early Christianity to Islam and Back — 1. The Earliest Christianity
  • From Early Christianity to Islam and Back–2. Negative Developments in Christianity Before Muhammad

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