On Christianity And European Identity

Christian went to Europe, and formed a close relationship with the developmentof European civilization laid the dominance of Christianity in European thought. Thefar-reaching significance of this historical process is far-reaching implications of theChristian European identity.First of all, the integrity of Europe by the influence of Christian integrity, it ismainly reflected in the ideological and cultural identity, which is the core of Europeanidentity. Christianity is not only to create the unified European spirit world, but in reallife to create a common European culture, the common habits of life, the commonalityof ethical conduct and the European concept of unity. In fact, before the Renaissance,the Christian not only in the ideological and cultural fields accounted for dominance,it is actually both, even if it is formed in the development of today, Europe’s ethicsand code of conduct based on Christian dogma the.Secondly, the European identity is not only reflected in the ideologicalconvergence is also reflected in the convergence of the political structure, Christianityplayed a vital role in building a system of the feudal order in Europe. The WesternRoman Empire, Europe opens the barbarians of the historical process, the secularpolitics is extremely underdeveloped barbarians need to rely on the organizedChristian Church and the priest have the ability to help its rule. As a result, thealliance of Christianity and the barbarian, the church and the church became aquasi-administrative body; priest became the senior officials, the European Socialembarked on a religious track. After the Christian conquest of Europe, the Holy Seewill not care about the unity of the secular power in Europe, in fact, a divided secularpolitical structure more in line with the Holy See, the spirit of maintaining theinterests of the large Christian unity. Christian support for the feudal structure ofcuring their own interests to consider, the political landscape of a small country withfew people opened the way, embarked for Europe later laid the legal, ethical andpolitical basis. This small country’s political structure is also an important component of European identity.Finally, in the struggle with the pagan, the Christian, and strengthen theEuropean identity. In the fierce struggle of Christian and pagan, religion, identity notonly become a standard to distinguish between friend or foe, but also developed intothe European civilization of the highest level of agree, this sense of identity and evenbeyond the European internal conflicts and contradictions based on real Interest.