Is Christianity an Eastern or Western religion?

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Is Christianity an Eastern or Western religion, since it possibly stated in the Iraq area with the Garden of Eden or with Abraham somewhere in the East?

Would we have a different answer if we were to ask is Catholicism is an Eastern religion, with the Bishopric being in Rome? I think it would be called Western.

So that is why we have the West and the East? So I can share this with my Muslim friend who says Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are Eastern religions?

Thanks You.
 
It is a Western religion, Having Immense influence over Europe and America.
 
It’s origins are neither. It’s foundations are smack dab between East and West.

It’s growth however would be mostly Western. Much of the Eastern growth was wiped out by Islam within a few hundred years.
 
It is really a universal religion as there is no place on earth where there is not at least someone worshiping Jesus Christ at any given time of day.👍
 
Christianity is neither east nor west, but Catholic, universal.
 
PaulfromIowa said:
Christianity is neither east nor west, but Catholic, universal.
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Bravo and well said! God is the creator of our universal church. Therefore our faith is universal. Jesus, the second person of the Trinity instituted His church here to lead mankind in this life and toward our true destiny= to be with God for all eternity.
 
Before the adoption of Christianity as the official religion of the Empire (380), or even the founding of the Byzantine Empire (330), Christianity had spread to the entire known world of its day. Christian kingdoms were established in Armenia (Asia, 301) and Ethiopia (East Africa, c. 324). Even before the official adoption by countries we would recognize today, there were individual kingdoms, such as Osroene (Mespotomia, modern Turkey) which were Christian as early as the late second century AD (under king Abgar, who ruled from 179-186).

Anyone who tells you that Christianity is somehow an essentially “Western” or “Eastern” religion is a fool, quite frankly. Those designations really only took on concrete meaning after the division of the Empire into Western and Eastern halves (which, again, didn’t happen until there were already Christian kingdoms spread from Asia to Africa), and are all a matter of (Eurocentric) perspective, anyway. To the Nestorian Christians in China (7th century), we would all be Westerners.

Also, seeing as how more well-established versions of Christianity in the West (mainline Protestantism and Roman Catholicism) are rapidly losing ground to atheism, agnosticism, Islam, and weirdo new-age stuff, it has been argued quite convincingly in many places that Christianity in the new millennium will essentially become a Southern religion – existing primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and South America. Read books like Lamin Sanneh’s “Disciples of all Nations” for more on that.
 
I would say that, back in the day, Christianity (along with Judaism and Islam) was a Middle Eastern religion – as opposed to an Eastern religion like Buddhism, or a Western religion like a Native American spirituality.

But nowadays I think we can call it a Western religion.
 
Peter_J said:
I would say that, back in the day, Christianity (along with Judaism and Islam) was a Middle Eastern religion – as opposed to an Eastern religion like Buddhism, or a Western religion like a Native American spirituality.

But nowadays I think we can call it a Western religion.
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Could you expand on this??

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dzheremi said:
Also, seeing as how more well-established versions of Christianity in the West (mainline Protestantism and Roman Catholicism) are rapidly losing ground to atheism, agnosticism, Islam, and weirdo new-age stuff, it has been argued quite convincingly in many places that Christianity in the new millennium will essentially become a Southern religion – existing primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and South America. Read books like Lamin Sanneh’s “Disciples of all Nations” for more on that.
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Hmmm … good point.
 
GodHeals said:
Hi,

Is Christianity an Eastern or Western religion, since it possibly stated in the Iraq area with the Garden of Eden or with Abraham somewhere in the East?

Would we have a different answer if we were to ask is Catholicism is an Eastern religion, with the Bishopric being in Rome? I think it would be called Western.

So that is why we have the West and the East? So I can share this with my Muslim friend who says Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are Eastern religions?

Thanks You.
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Christianity is a Middle Eastern religion.
 
GodHeals said:
Hi,

Is Christianity an Eastern or Western religion, since it possibly stated in the Iraq area with the Garden of Eden or with Abraham somewhere in the East?

Would we have a different answer if we were to ask is Catholicism is an Eastern religion, with the Bishopric being in Rome? I think it would be called Western.

So that is why we have the West and the East? So I can share this with my Muslim friend who says Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are Eastern religions?

Thanks You.
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It is neither, in that Christ belongs to all who believe in Him and become washed anew in baptism, whether actual or of desire.

Or you can say that it is both Eastern and Western, as it was Christ’s command to his apostles:

"Go, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them

In the Name of the +Father, and of the +Son, and of the +Ghost. And behold, I am with you even until the end of the age."

Consequently, the Church has planted its roots in both the East and the West.
 
GodHeals said:
Hi,

Is Christianity an Eastern or Western religion, since it possibly stated in the Iraq area with the Garden of Eden or with Abraham somewhere in the East?

Would we have a different answer if we were to ask is Catholicism is an Eastern religion, with the Bishopric being in Rome? I think it would be called Western.

So that is why we have the West and the East? So I can share this with my Muslim friend who says Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are Eastern religions?

Thanks You.
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Christianity is actually a Southern religion, although one might argue that it originated in the Middle-North.
 
Thank you for all of your responses. I am more interested where Christianity originated, in the west or east. Maybe it really doesn’t matter. But for the sake of argument with my friend and for the sake of what the Church teaches, I am curious.

Is there an official Catholic Church document of any kind that might mention something about it?
 
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