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#55618. joezhou300
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Where is Christendom?
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Buck540
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In its wider sense this term is used to describe the part of the world which is inhabited by Christians.
Mar 02 05, 9:03 PM
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bloomsby
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I've always assumed that in modern contexts it refers to the totality of Christians, not to a specific geographical area. That said, for much of the Middle Ages, it referred to those parts of Europe that were Christian.
Mar 02 05, 11:10 PM
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Baloo55th
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I'd go with both those answers. It ain't so much a place as a system. In practice it meant Europe (apart from the awkward bits like Lithuania and South Spain that were either still pagan or occupied by Islam), and during the Crusades the occupied bits of Palestine. It didn't tend to include Abyssinia, the Christian communities in Syria and India, and the Coptic Church. They weren't our sort of people, after all, even though they worshipped the right god. They weren't doing it the right way...... By the time the whole of Europe was Christian (apart from the bits occupied by the Ottomans), the concept had virtually died - especially as there were more important things like were you Protestant or Roman Catholic to discuss.....
Mar 03 05, 9:06 AM
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