People fromt the Western World that Shaped Christianity Today

Augustine died in 430 at the age of 76 (or 780). When he died there were barbarians at the gate of Hippo. This all started when Alaric, king of the Goths, took Rome in 410. With this corruption, Roman society was thrown into confusion. In the west there is a vacuum of authority, so the church steps into the vacuum. They seized political control. The barbarians didn’t care, they were not anti-Christian. Actually, Alaric considered himself an Arian Christian. Chalcedon happens after all of this. This goes on for centuries where political authority and the church were intermingled. These years prevented the spread of Islam through Europe. It spread quickly through Northern Africa by force of arms. The Christian political system did a lot to stop that. This also accomplished some form of stability.

Pope Gregory supervises the rebuilding of the ruins of Rome.

During this time, France is Christian in the same way Morocco was Islamic, the government said they had to be. This was a sh...