Christian Martyrs and the Early Christian Movement

I will also discuss the response of the early Church to the persecutions. ... In the early years the pagans often confused Jews and Christians as both were adherents of oriental sects of obscure origin, who were recruited among foreigners of lowly extraction, who lived in the ghettos and met at night to carry out, what many presumed were, criminal rituals. ... Their following of a man, Jesus, who had been crucified years earlier and refusal to worship other gods led to the charge of atheism been levelled against them. ... Septimus Severus was the first emperor to have a more general moveme...

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Key People Peter was the leader of the early church. ... Stephen, however, was the first Christian martyr. ... Pentecost was the first main movement in the early Church, it meant that all men would be involved and this reflected the movement itself. It was the beginning of the Church and the first big movement of Jews becoming Christian, in all three thousand were baptised that day. ... This began persecution against Christians, which led to physical movement and meant that Christians fled into other parts of the empire bringing with them the the word of God. ...

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They were devoted to their respective church as well as to their movement. King was a Christian, X a Muslim and they emphasized this difference in what they wrote and said. ... King is a Christian Minister from Atlanta, Georgia [. . .]The same as they are Christian Minister, I"m a Muslim minister.[. . .] ... And King writes: " the largest and best-known being Elijah Muhammad's Muslim movement. [. . .] this movement is made up of people who have lost faith in America, who have absolutely repudiated Christianity, and who have concluded that the white man is an incorrigible "devil""(King 34)...

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Since it first appeared on Korean soil and was nourished by the Korean philosophy of life, the new movement was naturally influenced to some extent by its environment. ... Korea's indigenous religion, like that of most early cultures, was a form of shamanism. ... In the past, European writers on religion contrasted the light which Christianity brought with the earlier period of pagan darkness. ... Greek philosophy was a valuable preparation for Christian theology. Stoic morality was helpful in creating a Christian social ethic. ...

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Civil Rights Movement African Americans have overcome many struggles as well as obstacles in the early years which have still not been terminated. ... Not just any kind of movement, but a movement that would see victories as well as violence and death. That movement was the Civil Rights Movement. ... He led a slave revolt and was considered a fanatic by other whites and a martyr by the people whose cause he campaigned. 1 A lot of whites that did help blacks in their struggle for freedom were intimidated and abused by others, but that never made them give up. ... During the Civil Rights mo...

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This area has prominently shaped European history in the nineteenth century and has been one of the topics in major conflicts such as World War I in the early twentieth century. ... The Balkan area held a major part of Russian expansionism because of the Pan-Slavism movement and economic factors. ... The Pan-Slavism movement in the mid-nineteenth century was implemented during the reformation of Russia's foreign policy in 1828. ... The Russian citizens wanted their Christian brothers to be united under a Christian government instead of the Ottoman Empire where the religion was domina...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate