基督教国教地位的确立及原因探析

The Establishment of the State Religion of Christianity and Its Cause Analysis

作为世界三大宗教之一的基督教,脱胎于犹太教的一个小宗派,之后发展成一种与犹太教完全分离的新宗教,并逐步传遍罗马帝国全境,最终于公元4世纪末正式成为帝国国教。基督教能够迅速突破民族、国家和地区的限制,确立为罗马帝国的国教,既有客观方面的原因,又有基督教自身的原因。

As one of the three biggest religiom in the world, the Christianity came from a small religious sect of the Judaism. After that it became a new religion which separated from the Judaism completely, spread to the whole empire of Rome gradually,and became the country＇s church of the empire formally at the end of fourth century A.D. The Christiarity can break the restricts of raoe, nation and the region quickly, from a narrow race religion to the religion throughout the world,for the objective reason and the Christianity itself.