Christianization

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Christianization (or Christianisation) is the process or result of the conversion to Christianity. Christianization has, for the most part, spread through missions by individual conversions, but has also been the result of violence. "Christianization" also refers the conversion of previously non-Christian practices, spaces and places to Christian uses and names. In a related manner, the term refers to the changes that naturally emerge in a nation when sufficient numbers of individuals convert, or when secular leaders require those changes. It began in the Roman Empire when the early individual followers of Jesus became itinerant preachers in response to the command recorded in Matthew 28:19 (sometimes called the Great Commission) to go to all the nations of the world and preach the good news of the gospel of Jesus. Christianization spread through the Roman Empire and into its surrounding nations in its first three hundred years. The process of Christianizing the Roman Empire was never completed...

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