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- The history of Christianity
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The Christian mission, the church, and Christianity—each distinguishable, but inseparably related—have experienced four major transitions in their history. The new missionary faith made its first major transition as it emerged from Palestine and spread throughout the Mediterranean world. The apostle Paul became the missionary to the Gentile world. With help from St. Barnabas and a local network of coworkers, many of them women, he evangelized Asia Minor and southern Greece and eventually reached Rome. Dominated politically by the Roman Empire, the new religion benefited from the stability the empire provided and the language its elite shared—common, or Koine, Greek. Alexandrian ...(100 of 123600 words)