CHRISTIANITY

PRESENTED BY- Praveen Dungdung

Roll No.-197
 CHRISTIANITY
■ An Abrahamic monotheistic
religion
■ Based on the life &
teachings of Jesus Christ
■ Jesus- Focal point of the
Christian faith
■ Followers known as
“Christians”
■ World’s largest religion with
33% of global population
 HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
■ Started about 2000 years
ago in Judea with Jesus
Christ and his faithful group
of disciples
■ The history of
Christianity concerns
1. The Christian religion,
2.  The Christendom, &
3. The Church with its
various denominations
■ Christianity expanded
Renaissance onwards
■ Today, there are more than
2.4 billion Christians
worldwide
 ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY
“Christianity Began LONG BEFORE Jesus came
to earth”

-} The beginning of Christianity-

■ The garden of Eden, 6,000 years ago
■ Immediately after Adam and Eve
sinned
■ God gave a promise of a Savior–
Jesus Christ

God said to Satan: “I will put enmity between

thee and the woman and between thy seed and
her seed and He shall bruise thy head, and thou
 ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY
IN INDIA
■ Introduced by Thomas,
the Apostle

■ Thomas established The

Malankara Sabha during
the visit
to Muziris in Kerala in AD
52

■ Christianity established
in India by the 6th
century AD
 LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST
■ Born in c. 4 BC at Nazareth
■ Birth anniversary annually
celebrated on 25 December
■ Parents- Mary & Joseph
■ Also known as Jesus of Nazareth &
Jesus
■ Baptized in the age of 18 & began
kingdom preaching & teachings
■ Feeding thousands of people only with
few fishes & few loaves of bread
■ Died in c. 30/33 AD because of
Crucifixion
 THE HOLY BIBLE
■ A collection of sacred texts or
scriptures
■ Considered to be a product of
divine inspiration
■ A record of the relationship
between God & humans
■ Contributed by many authors
■ Canonical text differs depending
on traditions & groups
■ Many Bible canons have evolved
with overlapping & diverging
contents
 THE CHRISTIAN OLD
TESTAMENTS
■ Overlaps with The Hebrew
Bible & The Greek Spetuagint
■ Genesis
■ Exodus
■ Leviticus
■ Numbers
■ Deuteronomy
■ Joshua
■ Judges
■ Ruth
 THE CHRISTIAN NEW
TESTAMENTS
■ A collection of writings by
early Christians
■ Written in 1st century Koine
Greek
■ Consists of narratives,
letters, & apocalyptic
writings
■ Disagreements about the
contents of canon among
Christian denominations
THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS

CONFIRMATI
BAPTISM EUCHARIST RECONCILIATON
ON

MARRIAGE HOLY ORDERS ANOINTING

OF THE SICK
  

HOLY
JERUSALEM PLACE NAZARETH

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1. The Jordan River,
2. Cana of the
Galilee, 3. Sea
of Galilee

SOME OTHER HOLY

BETHLEHEM PLACES
 The 12 Apostles of Jesus
■ Jesus Christ selected 12 men from among his early
followers to become his closest disciples. After an
intensive discipleship course and following his
resurrection from the dead, the Lord fully
commissioned the apostles (Matthew 28:16-2, Mark
16:15) to advance God's kingdom and carry the
gospel message to the world.

■ These men became the pioneering leaders of the

New Testament church
■ Neither religious, nor refined, they were ordinary
people
■ God chose them for a purpose—to fan the flames
of the gospel
 SAINTS
St. Ignatius Of Loyola
■ Inigo Lopez de Loyola- Original
name of Ignatius
■ Born in 1491- a man on the edge
of two worlds
■ Right leg was shattered by a
cannon ball in 1521
■ Read several religious books, the
only reading material readily
available
■ Elected General Superior of the
Institute of the Society of Jesus in
1540
■ Died in 1556 at the age of 65
 ST. FRANCIS XAVIER

■ Born on April 7, 1506 near Sanguesa

in Spain
■ Completed his preliminary studies in
1525 and entered the College of
Sainte-Barbe
■ Ordained to the priesthood on June
24, 1537
■ On April 7, 1541, Francis departed for
India as the Jesuits’ first foreign
missionary & 8 years later he sailed
to Japan
■ Francis Xavier was beatified in 1619
and canonized a saint of the Catholic
Church in 1622
■ Also the Patron Saint of all Navigators
 MOTHER TERESA
■ The founder of the Order of the
Missionaries of Charity
■ Born in 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia
■ Considered one of the 20th
Century's greatest humanitarians
■ Canonized as Saint Teresa of
Calcutta in 2016
■ Her order established a hospice;
centres for the blind, aged, and
disabled; and a leper colony
■ Received the Nobel Peace Prize for
her humanitarian work in 1979
■ Died in September 1997 and was
beatified in October 2003