Composed of three panels, the ceiling depicts the coronation of King George III, Saint Patrick introducing Christianity to Ireland, and King Henry II receiving the submission of the Irish Chieftains.

The first monument depicts a hearth and a sword, the transition from Paganism to Christianity ; the second, a knight with a sword standing between the city gates, the main part of the town Coat of Arms.

It depicts a narrator's walking dream through the buildings of various religions, which are all ( other than Christianity ) depicted in a negative light.

The science fiction story " Delenda Est " by Poul Anderson depicts an alternate history world where Carthage defeated Rome, Christianity never arose and in the 20th Century, Svantevit is still a main deity of a major European power called Littorn ( that is, Lithuania ).

Among the incidents it depicts is the eradication of Praying Town Indians in the colonial period, despite their recent conversion to Christianity, because it was assumed that all Indians were the same.

This arrangement stands in marked contrast to some recent philosophy in the West, which has traditionally enforced either a completely unified philosophic / religious belief system ( for example, the various sects and associated philosophies of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam ), or a sharp and total repudiation of some forms of religion by philosophy ( for example, Nietzsche, Marx, Voltaire, etc.

It also led to a sharp decline in Christianity in Northumbria when Edwin's immediate successors reverted to paganism.

Around 1691 Keith decided that Quakers had strayed too far from orthodox Christianity and began to have sharp disagreements with his fellow believers.

She claimed: " the common structure between these two ideological currents Golwalkar and Goel / Shourie, separated by several decades as they are, highlights the core of the Hindu nationalist movement: ethnicism or exclusive particularism " Koenraad Elst disagrees with Kondo, and says: " In sharp contrast with the repetitive-nationalistic and Indocentric approach of Golwalkar and the RSS, Goel and Shourie ( and Ram Swarup before them ) have developed a historical and philosophical critique of Christianity and Islam that has universal validity.

In Stealing Jesus, Bawer leveled sharp criticism at evangelical, Pentecostal, and other strains of modern Christianity, including premillennialism and evangelical apologism for capitalism.

an intriguing glimpse into a kind of Christianity lost for almost fifteen hundred years ... presents a radical interpretation of Jesus ' teachings as a path to inner spiritual knowledge ; it rejects His suffering and death as the path to eternal life ; it exposes the erroneous view that Mary of Magdala was a prostitute for what it is — a piece of theological fiction ; it presents the most straightforward and convincing argument in any early Christian writing for the legitimacy of women's leadership ; it offers a sharp critique of illegitimate power and a utopian vision of spiritual perfection ; it challenges our rather romantic views about the harmony and unanimity of the first Christians ; and it asks us to rethink the basis for church authority.

Another distinction that is sometimes drawn is between Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity.

By cultism we mean the adherence to doctrines which are pointedly contradictory to orthodox Christianity and which yet claim the distinction of either tracing their origin to orthodox sources or of being in essential harmony with those sources.

There is also a personal dualism in Christianity with a soul-body distinction based on the idea of an immaterial Christian Soul.

Thus, Christianity acquired an identity distinct from Rabbinic Judaism, but this distinction was not recognised all at once by the Roman Empire, see Split of early Christianity and Judaism for details.

Today, the geographical distinction between Western and Eastern Christianity is not nearly as absolute, especially after the spread of missionaries.

Today, the geographical distinction between Western and Eastern Christianity is now much less absolute, due to the great migrations of Europeans across the globe, as well as the work of missionaries worldwide over the past five centuries.

This distinction of a separate ministry was formed in the early times of Christianity ; one early source reflecting this distinction, with the three ranks or orders of bishop, priest and deacon, is the writings of Saint Ignatius of Antioch.

Martin Luther elevated sola fide to the principal cause of the Protestant Reformation, the rallying cry of the Protestant cause, and the chief distinction between Protestant Christianity and Roman Catholicism.

Christianity makes a distinction between the true self and the false self, and sees the false self negatively, distorted through sin: ' The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked ; who can know it?

Belief in the messiahship and divinity of Jesus, which Messianic Judaism generally shares, is viewed by many Christian denominations and Jewish religious movements as a defining distinction between Christianity and Judaism.

Frequently in Christianity a distinction is made between " liturgical " and " non-liturgical " churches based on the elaboration and / or antiquity of the worship ; in this usage, churches whose services are unscripted or improvised are called " non-liturgical ".

Although its strongly conservative views on theology and ethics might seem to make the LCMS politically compatible with Protestant evangelicals and fundamentalists in the U. S., the LCMS largely eschews political activity, partly out of concerns to keep the denomination untainted with potential heresies and also because of its strict understanding of the Lutheran distinction between the Two Kingdoms ( see above ), which repudiates the primarily Calvinist presuppositions about the totalizing rule of God that informs much, if not most, of U. S. evangelical understanding of politics and Christianity.

The Shoah made no distinction between secular Jews, atheistic Jews, orthodox Jews and Jews that had converted to Christianity.

No distinction is made between true and false accusation, but the synod probably meant only the accusation of Christianity before the heathen judge, or at most a false accusation.

" While this departure from traditional Lutheran thought is sometimes hailed as " the threshold of a third Luther Renaissance ," other Lutheran scholars disagree and argue that the idea of theosis violates Luther's theology of the cross principles by ignoring the real distinction that is axiomatic for not only Luther, but for orthodox Christianity as a whole.

Others, especially non-Christian scholars, claim to see a Pauline distinction different from that found elsewhere in the New Testament, a distinction that unduly influenced later Christianity.

In Christianity, a distinction is made between simple promises and oaths or vows.

The characteristics of Progressive Christianity, and its distinction from Liberal Christianity, have been articulated in an article by Hal Taussig.

Traditional Christianity and Judaism make a clear distinction between what is spiritual and what is temporal, while Mormon theology specifically denies that there is such a distinction.

Whenever New England liberalism is reminded of the dramatic confrontation of Parker and the fraternity on January 23, 1843 -- while it may defend the privilege of Chandler Robbins to demand that Parker leave the Association, while it may plead that Dr. N. L. Frothingham had every warrant for stating, `` The difference between Trinitarians and Unitarians is a difference in Christianity ; ;

the difference between Mr. Parker and the Association is a difference between no Christianity and Christianity '' -- despite these supposed conclusive assurances, the modern liberal heaves repeatedly a sigh of relief, of positive thanksgiving, that the Association never quite brought itself officially to expel Parker.

The conflict between Arianism and Trinitarian beliefs was the first major doctrinal confrontation in the Church after the legalization of Christianity by the Roman Emperors Constantine I and Licinius.

The Assyrians began to convert to Christianity from Ashurism during the period between the early 1st and 3rd centuries AD.

Towards the end of Steiner's life, a group of theology students ( primarily Lutheran, with some Roman Catholic members ) approached Steiner for help in reviving Christianity, in particular " to bridge the widening gulf between modern science and the world of spirit.

During the early centuries of Christianity the title " pope " was applied generally to all bishops ; it now has more specific meanings that vary between churches.

Other vestments and insignia vary between Eastern and Western Christianity.

The contents are correspondingly varied: a confession of sin and a plea to God not to maintain his anger forever ( ch. 63: 7 – 64: 11 ); a poem on the theme that God has no need of a temple because Heaven is his throne and Earth his footstool ( Isaiah 66: 1 – 2 ); verses setting out conditions for admission to the community ; complaints of sin, incompetence and paganism ; and distinctions between the " righteous " and the " sinners ", foreshadowing the categories used in much later Judaism and early Christianity.

Criticism of Christianity and Christians goes back to the Apostolic age, with the New Testament recording friction between the followers of Jesus and the Pharisees and scribes ( e. g. Mark 7: 1-23 and Matthew 15: 1-20 ).

Throughout the late Roman and early Byzantine periods, Christianity was resolving fundamental questions of identity, and the dispute between the orthodox and the monophysites became the cause of serious disorder, expressed through allegiance to the horse-racing parties of the Blues and the Greens.

Christian attitudes to Judaism and to the Jewish people developed from the early years of Christianity, the persecution of Christians in the New Testament, and persisted over the ensuing centuries, driven by numerous factors including theological differences, competition between Church and Synagogue, the Christian drive for converts decreed by the Great Commission, misunderstanding of Jewish beliefs and practices, and a perceived Jewish hostility toward Christians.

Buber made this theme the basis of a famous definition of the tension between Judaism and Christianity:

This was the background to the concept of Messiahship in early Christianity, which interpreted the career of Jesus " by means of the titles and functions assigned to David in the mysticism of the Zion cult, in which he served as priest-king and in which he was the mediator between God and man.

Deism flourished in England between 1690 and 1740, at which time Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation ( 1730 ), also called " The Deist's Bible ", gained much attention.

Eastern Christianity bases its calculations on the Julian calendar whose 21 March corresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian calendar, in which the celebration of Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May.

In Western Christianity, using the Gregorian calendar, Easter always falls on a Sunday between 22 March and 25 April, inclusively.

Acceptance of these councils thus varies between different branches of Christianity.

Finally, there was a more pronounced conflict between Christianity and socialism in the north.

The Spaniard, Michael Servetus denounced the orthodox Christian formulation of the Trinity ( demonstrating the only explicit reference to the Trinity in the New Testament to be a later interpolation ); and hoped thereby to bridge the doctrinal divide between Christianity and Islam.