Since the time of John, the Christian view of the apocalypse has changed drastically. From The Book of Revelation casting out the sinners and releasing plagues upon the world, to The Book of Daniel symbolizing the rise of empires that would ultimately wipe out most culture, Christianity has had several ideas of the end of the world. After the death of Jesus, Christianity would really begin to spread again starting around 400CE with the fall of the Roman Empire. Over about a 1000 years span the views of Christianity and its apocalyptic views will change from about 400CE to 1000CE. This can be demonstrated over many different intervals of time starting with the fall of the roman empire, going to the middle ages and then ending around the time
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Augustine of Hippo was a Roman bishop whose main philosophy on Christianity was to not focus on the earthly part of life but the spiritual. He would write The City of God which would try to defend Christianity after Rome is taken down by the Goths. Augustine would state that with the end of the world there would be judgment day, and the devil along with his multitude of sinners, would be casted out and the church would stand strong. Next there are the views of Sulpicius Severus, a Christian elite of his time who would share his ideas of the apocalypse while being mentored by Martin. While being his mentee, Severus knows that Martin is talking directly to the saints to find out the details of the apocalypse and in a dialogue between him and a friend, he would share these ideas.” “But when we questioned him concerning the end of the world, he said to us that Nero and Antichrist have first to come” (Sulpicius). He states that with Nero being the Roman ruler, he would in fact be teaming up with the antichrist and they would each rule a portion of the world. Yet in the end, Nero would be destroyed by the antichrist, and all civilizations would be under his power until Christ would come to overthrow him. With all of this evidence, the late antiquity and fall of the Roman empire would spark ideas of a new judgment day, a …show more content…
By this time the church would become the most powerful institution in all of Europe and as a whole, does not really believe that the world is going to end any time soon. At this time the church would begin its crusades, looking to get rid of all heretics in the Europe. Even though the church may not have believed that the world was going to end, many Christians still had their own ideas and views on it based on their current way of life. In a peculiar way, faith would lead Christians to believe very strange things, for example, the rise of Charlemagne from the dead. With the outbreak of the crusades, the blood moon would be associated with an apocalypse along with some of the other disasters occurring around Europe. Yet the disaster that would have the largest effect would be the plague known as the Black Death. This disease would wipeout an estimated one third of the European population in a very short period of time. People were either ignoring it, embracing it, or meeting in the middle to deal with this vicious outbreak. This plague would be seen by some Christians as a fitting punishment by God for all of the sin that man had been committing over time. It would be seen fitting that this was the start of the end for life as people had known it, so groups like the flagellants were doing what they could to keep themselves pure and to
Augustine of Hippo was a Roman bishop whose main philosophy on Christianity was to not focus on the earthly part of life but the spiritual. He would write The City of God which would try to defend Christianity after Rome is taken down by the Goths. Augustine would state that with the end of the world there would be judgment day, and the devil along with his multitude of sinners, would be casted out and the church would stand strong. Next there are the views of Sulpicius Severus, a Christian elite of his time who would share his ideas of the apocalypse while being mentored by Martin. While being his mentee, Severus knows that Martin is talking directly to the saints to find out the details of the apocalypse and in a dialogue between him and a friend, he would share these ideas.” “But when we questioned him concerning the end of the world, he said to us that Nero and Antichrist have first to come” (Sulpicius). He states that with Nero being the Roman ruler, he would in fact be teaming up with the antichrist and they would each rule a portion of the world. Yet in the end, Nero would be destroyed by the antichrist, and all civilizations would be under his power until Christ would come to overthrow him. With all of this evidence, the late antiquity and fall of the Roman empire would spark ideas of a new judgment day, a …show more content…
By this time the church would become the most powerful institution in all of Europe and as a whole, does not really believe that the world is going to end any time soon. At this time the church would begin its crusades, looking to get rid of all heretics in the Europe. Even though the church may not have believed that the world was going to end, many Christians still had their own ideas and views on it based on their current way of life. In a peculiar way, faith would lead Christians to believe very strange things, for example, the rise of Charlemagne from the dead. With the outbreak of the crusades, the blood moon would be associated with an apocalypse along with some of the other disasters occurring around Europe. Yet the disaster that would have the largest effect would be the plague known as the Black Death. This disease would wipeout an estimated one third of the European population in a very short period of time. People were either ignoring it, embracing it, or meeting in the middle to deal with this vicious outbreak. This plague would be seen by some Christians as a fitting punishment by God for all of the sin that man had been committing over time. It would be seen fitting that this was the start of the end for life as people had known it, so groups like the flagellants were doing what they could to keep themselves pure and to