# Pan-Christianity

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Medieval Christian nationalist movement

[Christendom](/source/Christendom) by A.D. 600 after its [spread to Africa and Europe](/source/Spread_of_Christianity) from the [Middle East](/source/Middle_East). Ethiopia and the Indian Malabar Coast not pictured.

The [Church of the East](/source/Church_of_the_East) at its largest extent during the Middle Ages.

In the [Middle Ages](/source/Middle_Ages), efforts were made in order to establish a single [Christian state](/source/Christian_state) of **Pan-Christianity** by uniting the countries within [Christendom](/source/Christendom).[1][2] [Christian nationalism](/source/Christian_nationalism) may have played a role in this era in which Christians felt the impulse to recover lands in which Christianity flourished.[3] [Muslims militarily invaded](/source/Early_Muslim_conquests) parts of North Africa, East Asia, Southern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, as well as parts of Europe.[4] In response, Christians across national borders mobilized militarily and a "wave of Christian reconquest achieved the [recovery of Spain, Portugal](/source/Reconquista), and southern Italy, but was unable to recover North Africa nor—from a Christian point of view, most painful of all—the Holy Land of Christendom."[4]

## See also

- [Christianity portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Christianity)

- [Antidisestablishmentarianism](/source/Antidisestablishmentarianism)

- [Christian nationalism](/source/Christian_nationalism)

- [Christian state](/source/Christian_state)

- [Christian Reconstructionism](/source/Christian_Reconstructionism)

- [History of Christian flags](/source/History_of_Christian_flags)

- [Integralism](/source/Integralism)

- [Theonomy](/source/Theonomy)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Snyder1990_1-0)** Snyder, Louis L. (1990). *Encyclopedia of Nationalism*. St. James Press. p. 282. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-55862-101-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-55862-101-5). Major religions in the past, especially Christianity, have attempted to include all their adherents in a large union, but they have not been successful. Throughout most of the Middle Ages in Western Europe, attempts were made again and again to unite all the Christian world into a kind of Pan-Christianity, which would combine all Christians in a secular-religious state as a successor to the Roman Empire.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Snyder1984_2-0)** Snyder, Louis Leo (1984). *Macro-nationalisms: A History of the Pan-movements*. Greenwood Press. p. 129. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-313-23191-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-313-23191-9). Throughout the better part of the Middle Ages, elaborate attempts were made to create what was, in effect, a Pan-Christianity, an effort to unite "all" the Western Christian world into a successor state of the Roman Empire.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-USE2005_3-0)** *Parole de l'Orient, Volume 30*. Université Saint-Esprit. 2005. p. 488.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-LewisChurchill2008_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-LewisChurchill2008_4-1) Lewis, Bernard Ellis; Churchill, Buntzie Ellis (2008). *Islam: The Religion and the People*. Pearson Prentice Hall. p. 76. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-13-271606-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-13-271606-2).

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