Christianism: Incorporating the New Testament into Judaism

Christianism is one of the three great monotheistic religions, together with judaism and islamism. Christianism combines traditions from the judaism, and enriches them with the proofs from the New Testament. The world "christian" comes from the popular Latin word christianus, derived from Christ, because Jesus from Nazareth is the Son of God and Messiah. The institution specific to Christianism is the church. The teaching authority is the Holy Bible, to which are added for orthodoxes and catholics, the tradition of the Church, and the catholics must also add the authority of the Pope.

Christianism is the religion of those who admit belief in Jesus Christ, whom they recognize and honour as Son of God and holder of a universal salvation message, taught by the saints. Christianism has therefore its origins in the event and the mystery of Jesus Christ (life, words, ordeal, death on cross, revival from death, rising to heaven). It is characterised by monotheism, actually according to the initial Jewish structure.

The fundamental idea of the christianism is to consider God the creator of the universe (and the man as part of the universe), a being full of love and paternal care (indeed, the christian Belief says: "I believe in God, the all mighty Father, the Creator of the heaven and of the earth, of everything we can see or cannot see"), constituted in three distinct persons in relationship, but equal as nature.

In Jesus Christ is recognized a double nature: divine and humane, each of them complete. This truth was confirmed by His death on the cross and His revival from death.

Most of the christian denominations express our fidelity towards the essence of initial christianism, even if the shape is changed.

Primary christianism

The first christian communities of Jewish origin appeared as a result of Jesus Christ's preaching and that of his saints, were soon joint by pagan origin communities, arisen especially from the preaching of Paul from Tars, who included christianism in a larger context, both from geographic and cultural point of view.

Christianism in the Middle Ages

Integration in christianism and imperial power are interrupted in the Occident when barbarian peoples invaded it, but it survived in the Byzantin Imperium, in forms and contents which denoted tendencies of a growing sacralization of the emperor's figure, who owned the political and the religious power.

Division of Church

Different historical development of oriental imperium and of the occidental one (roman-barbarian), in time, accelerated a process of differentiation more and more evaluated between the two christian communities. These differences touched both teaching aspects and formal aspects of the religious service and internal disciplinar criteria.

Christianism in the modern era

Beggining with the XVI-th century the divisions of occidental christianism met political And military conflicts between national states and imperium, thus giving a special conotation to the entire European history: the era of religious wars, or 30 years war, ending with Westfalia Peace.

Christianism in the XXth century

At the end of the XIXth century and the beginning of the XXth one christianism had to face first of all phenomena provoked by big changes of industrial revolution, to which were added social problems in cities, as well as new information and communication technologies.