\[ **BT: [[religion#so-called ‘world religions’]]** ] --- # Christianity ## history of Christianity [[Jesus was born in spring or autumn (not winter).]][^1] According to the Bible, Christians were first called *Christians* at Antioch (Acts 11:26). [[Much Christian ritual, myth, and structure is modelled on the pagan religions Christianity evolved from.]][^2] --- ## beliefs, practices, and institutions of Christianity ### doctrines concerning the nature and activity of God #### the doctrine of the Holy Trinity [[The Trinity is not found in the Bible.]][^3] ### doctrines concerning intermediary beings, powers, or principles; e.g., the angels, Satan, etc. [[When (historically) building religious edifices, location mattered. Lecouteux describes the necessity of a 'magically pure place', i.e. one without a pre-existing supernatural presence. This was the case in both Europe and China.]][^4] ### doctrines concerning human beings [[Modern Christianity demands individual moral responsibility—which by default separates individual humans from collective responsibility, and separates non-human animals from moral responsibility as a whole.]][^5] ### doctrines concerning the physical world [[The ‘separation from animals is centrally part of Judeo-Christian heritage.’]][^6] [[Despite the separation of humans from animals in Christian thought, during the medieval period, and up to the 19th century, Christianity held non-human animals ‘morally responsible for “crimes” such as thefts, chattering in church, and even murder’.]][^7] ### practices and institutions common or predominant among the various traditions of Christianity [[Much Christian ritual, myth, and structure is modelled on the pagan religions Christianity evolved from.]][^8] --- ## major traditional forms of Christianity ### Catholicism #### teachings, forms of worship, and principles of organisation that distinguish the Catholic tradition from that of Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism ##### the Catholic saints ###### Saint Anthony Also known as **Anthony of Padua**. [[Saint Anthony is the patron saint of lost objects.]][^9] [[In France, Saint Anthony is considered the patron saint of truffles. Truffle masses are celebrated in his honour.]][^10] [^1]: Philip Carr-Gomm, *[[Carr-Gomm, Druid Mysteries, 2002|Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century]]* (Rider, 2002), chapter 3. EPUB. [^2]: Carr-Gomm, *[[Carr-Gomm, Druid Mysteries, 2002|Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century]]*, chapter 3. [^3]: Carr-Gomm, *[[Carr-Gomm, Druid Mysteries, 2002|Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century]]*, chapter 3. [^4]: Claude Lecouteux, *[[Lecouteux, Tradition of Household Spirits, 2000|The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices]]*, trans. Jon E. Graham (Inner Traditions, 2000), p. 19. [^5]: Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes, ‘[[Rivera-Fuentes, ‘Gender and Hybridity’, 2000|Gender and Hybridity: The Significance of Human/Animal Characters in Magic Realist Fiction]]’, *Animal Issues*, vol. 4, no. 1 (2000), p. 32, [https://hdl.handle.net/10779/uow.27825465.v1](https://hdl.handle.net/10779/uow.27825465.v1). [^6]: Rivera-Fuentes, ‘[[Rivera-Fuentes, ‘Gender and Hybridity’, 2000|Gender and Hybridity: The Significance of Human/Animal Characters in Magic Realist Fiction]]’, p. 32. [^7]: Rivera-Fuentes, ‘[[Rivera-Fuentes, ‘Gender and Hybridity’, 2000|Gender and Hybridity: The Significance of Human/Animal Characters in Magic Realist Fiction]]’, p. 32. [^8]: Carr-Gomm, *[[Carr-Gomm, Druid Mysteries, 2002|Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century]]*, chapter 3. [^9]: Merlin Sheldrake, *[[Sheldrake, Entangled Life, 2021|Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures]]* (Vintage, 2021), p. 31. [^10]: Sheldrake, *[[Sheldrake, Entangled Life, 2021|Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures]]*, p. 31.