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According to recent projections, by 2050 Christians will make up around 36 percent of the world population (today the number is around 33 percent). Western Christianity’s share of the pie will, however, continue to decline in this development. According to the outlook, by 2050 there will be...
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. Christianity played an active role in the early Roman Empire. On the contrary, the negative influence of Christianity was mainly reflected in the late Roman Empire. Christianity had a certain impact on the decline of the Roman Empire, especially at the cultural level. It led to the decline...
While Church attendance in the West is often cited as being in decline, it is argued that this applies primarily to the older established forms of Christianity. Other expressions of the faith are, in fact, stable or even growing. This volume provides multidisciplinary interpretations of and respon...
Introduction: Hume, Gibbon, and the Attack on Christianity Stephen Paul Foster Pages 1-53 Philosophic History and the Critique of Orthodoxy Stephen Paul Foster Pages 55-91 “Of Miracles” at Work in the Decline and Fall Stephen Paul Foster Pages 93-127 The Demise of Immortality...
"But even in that hypothetical situation, the religious makeup of the U.S. population would continue to shift gradually," the report says, "primarily as a result of Christians being older than other groups, on average, and the unaffiliated being younger, with a larger share of their populati...
The character of the early Christians would probably be most surprising to modern lay Christians. The bulk of the early converts were from the lower classes in the cities. As the great historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) summarized in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1788): ...