Summary and Analysis of a History of God by Worth Books

Author:Worth Books
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Worth Books
Published: 2017-02-01T22:26:16+00:00

Timeline

14000 BCE: Premonotheistic pagan peoples in the Fertile Crescent, Arabia, Asia, and elsewhere worship Sky Gods and follow a variety of animistic or agrarian religious practices.

5000–4000 BCE: Judaism is founded, and the Old Testament is written.

800–200 BCE: A period known as the Axial Age, in which previously disparate pagan beliefs began to be unified under a coherent monotheism (Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism).

0: The birth of Jesus Christ is said to have occurred in ancient Palestine.

1st century CE: The New Testament is written by Christ’s disciples: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Catholic Church is founded in Jerusalem.

285: The Roman Empire splits in two—the eastern and western empires.

325: The First Council of Nicaea occurs, and the Roman emperor Constantine, a convert, makes Christianity the state religion.

476–1453: The Age of Antiquity, or the Middle Ages, during which the four major religions (Judaism, Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism) spread and often intermingle.

610: Muhammad is said to have received the instruction of the angel Gabriel; he thereafter founds the new faith of Islam.

700: After Muhammad’s death, Islam spreads quickly from Arabia to China and west to southern Spain.

15th century: European colonialism begins, and Christianity is spread to peoples of foreign lands.

1478–1834: The Spanish Inquisition.

1492: All Jews and Muslims are either kicked out of Europe or forced to convert to Christianity.

16th century: The Reformation period in Europe; Protestantism emerges as a backlash against the monolithic power of the Catholic Church.

17th and 18th centuries: The Enlightenment in Europe.

19th and 20th centuries: With the rise of industrialization, technicalization, predominance of America in global affairs, Freudianism, and Marxism, secular thinking becomes a larger force; Nietzsche announces the “death of God.”

1939–1945: World War II.

1948: Israel is founded.

1962–1965: The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, which refocused the efforts of the Catholic Church on the global poor.

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