The Departure of Organized Christianity from its Roots, Second through Sixth Centuries CE

This is an outline of the second part of my attempt to link early errors of organized Christianity to the state of the modern world--specifically, in this part, by showing the origins and entrance of specific errors before Muhammad which profoundly affected subsequent history. Links will be added as future posts are written.

• Important Aspects of Roman Civic and Imperial State Religion that Influenced the Development of Christianity
• Important Aspects of Roman Statecraft and Jurisprudence that Influenced the Development of Christianity
• Outline of Important Aspects of Greek Philosophical Systems, Borrowed by Greco/Roman Culture, that Influenced the Development of Christianity
• Christian Syncretism
• Christianity and Roman Power Politics
• Early Christian Monotheism as Modified by the Politically Mandated Resolution of the Christological and Trinitarian Disputes
• Shift to Allegorical Interpretation of the Scriptures
• Abandonment of the Original Concept of the Kingdom of the Heavens
• The Rejection of God’s Voice
• The Elevation of the Bishops and the Clergy, and the Veneration of Mary and the “Saints”
• Shifts in Public Symbolism
• The Rise of Penance and of Forgiveness Dispensed by the Church Organization as a Means of Social Control
• The Development of Just War Theory
• Shifts in the method and language of non-military “evangelism” and teaching
• The Subjection of Women in the Church and Idolization of Mary and Female “Saints”
• Parallel Development of Miaphysite Christianity
• Parallel Development of “Nestorian” Eastern Christianity
• Philopponian Christianity and Other Variants that Affected Arabia

Related material in posts already written:

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