History of Christianity

This article outlines the history of Christianity and provides links to relevant topics.

19th century

• Catholic Resurgence in Romantic Europe
• Anglo-Catholic or Oxford Movement in the Church of England
• Missionaries and Colonialism
• Friedrich Schleiermacher and Liberal Christianity

The Second Great Awakening and Restorationism

• Charles Grandison Finney and Revivalism
• Holiness movement in the U. S. and Higher Life movement in Britain
• Campbellites or Stone-Campbell Churches
• The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
• The Church of Christ Movement in Britain and the US
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Millerites
• Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Jehovah's Witnesses

Anti-clericalism and atheistic communism

In many revolutionary movements the church was associated with the established repressive regimes. Thus, for example, after the French Revolution and the Mexican Revolution there was a distinct anti-clerical tone in those countries that exists to this day. On a more extreme level, Karl Marx condemned religion as the "opium of the people" http://www.baylor.edu/~Scott_Moore/texts/Marx_Opium.html and the Marxist-Leninist governments of the twentieth century were generally atheistic; of these, only Albania officially declared itself to be an atheistic state. All of these Marxist governments repressed the exercise of religion in varying degrees.

Related Topics:
French Revolution - Mexican Revolution - Karl Marx - Opium of the people - Marxist-Leninist - Albania

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