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For broader coverage of this topic, see Religious significance of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem's role in first-century Christianity, during the ministry of Jesus and the Apostolic Age, as recorded in the New Testament, gives it great importance.[2] Jerusalem is generally considered the cradle of Christianity.[3]

Church of the Holy Sepulchre: Jerusalem is generally considered the cradle of Christianity.[1]

New Testament

According to the New Testament, Jerusalem was the city to which Jesus was brought as a child, to be presented at the Temple (Luke 2:22) and to attend the festival of Passover (Luke 2:41). According to the gospels, Jesus Christ preached and healed in Jerusalem, especially in the courts of the Temple. The events of Pentecost in the Acts of the Apostles also took place at this location. There is also an account of the Cleansing of the Temple, where Jesus Christ was expelling traders and money changers out of the sacred precincts (Mark 11:15, see also Mark 11). At the end of each of the gospels, there are accounts of the Last Supper in an "Upper Room" in Jerusalem, Jesus Christ's arrest in Gethsemane, his trial, his crucifixion at Golgotha, his emtombment nearby, his resurrection and ascension, and his prophecy to return.[citation needed]

The Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles show James the Just, the brother of Jesus, as a leader of the early Jerusalem church. The fourth-century church fathers Eusebius and Epiphanius of Salamis cite a tradition that before the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 the Jerusalem Jewish Christians had been warned to flee to Pella in the region of the Decapolis across the Jordan River.[4] After the destruction of Jerusalem, they came back to the city. James and his successors were the focus of Jewish Christians until the destruction of the city by Emperor Hadrian in 135.

 
The Cenacle on Mount Zion, claimed to be the location of the Last Supper and Pentecost. Bargil Pixner[5] claims the original Church of the Apostles is located under the current structure.

Christian tradition holds that the place of the Last Supper is the Cenacle, on the second floor of a building on Mount Zion where David's Tomb is reportedly on the first floor. Biblical archaeologist Bargil Pixner[5] claims to have found three walls of the original structure still extant today. The place of Jesus' anguished prayer and betrayal, Gethsemane, is probably somewhere near the Church of All Nations on the Mount of Olives. Jesus' trial before Pontius Pilate may have taken place at the Antonia Fortress, to the north of the Temple area. Popularly, the exterior pavement where the trial was conducted is beneath the Convent of the Sisters of Zion. Other Christians believe that Pilate tried Jesus at Herod's Palace on Mount Zion.

The Via Dolorosa, or way of suffering, is the traditional route to Golgotha, the place of crucifixion, and is an important pilgrimage. The route ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Holy Sepulchre is traditionally believed to be the location of Golgotha and Jesus' nearby tomb. The original church was built in 336 by Constantine I. The Garden Tomb is a popular pilgrimage site near the Damascus Gate. It was suggested by Charles George Gordon that this site, rather than the Holy Sepulchre, is the true place of Golgotha.[citation needed]

Jerusalem historian Dan Mazar reported in a series of articles in the Jerusalem Christian Review on the archaeological discoveries made at this location by his grandfather, Professor Benjamin Mazar, which included the 1st-century stairs of ascent, where Jesus and his disciples preached, as well as the mikvaot used by both Jewish and Christian pilgrims.[citation needed] Much of this area was also uncovered by the excavations conducted by the elder Mazar.

Early Christianity

 
Main entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
See also: Christianity in the 1st century, Council of Jerusalem, Early Christianity, Early centers of Christianity, Constantine I and Christianity, and East–West Schism

The exclusion of Jews from the new city of Aelia Capitolina meant that gentile bishops were appointed under the authority of the Metropolitans of Caesarea and, ultimately, the Patriarchs of Antioch.

The general significance of Jerusalem to Christians outside the Holy Land entered a period of decline during the Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire but resumed again c.325 when Emperor Constantine I and his mother, Helena, endowed Jerusalem with churches and shrines, making it the foremost centre of Christian pilgrimage. Helena is remembered as the patron saint of archaeologists and (according to the church historian Socrates of Constantinople[6]) claimed to have found (with the assistance of bishop Macarius of Jerusalem) the True Cross, after removing a temple to Venus that had been built over the site. Jerusalem received special recognition in Canon VII of Nicaea in 325, without yet becoming a metropolitan see.[7]

The traditional founding date for the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre (which guards the Christian holy places in the Holy Land) is 313 which corresponds with the date of the Edict of Milan which legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire.

The Council of Chalcedon in 451 raised the Bishop of Jerusalem to the rank of the patriarch, together with Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, and Antioch. However, Byzantine politics meant that Jerusalem simply passed from the Syrian jurisdiction of Antioch to the Greek authorities in Constantinople. For centuries, Greek clergy dominated the Jerusalem church. Meanwhile, the Roman church never accepted the Pentarchy and instead claimed primacy. On the other hand, the ancient notion of the primacy of the Church of Jerusalem was preserved in several texts, like the early medieval list known as the Limits of the Five Patriarchates (Greek: Γνώσις και επίγνωσις των πατριαρχών θρόνων).

Medieval traditions

Muslim conquest of the Levant

See also: Muslim conquest of the Levant

In 638, Sophronius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, handed over the keys of the city to Caliph Umar's Muslim forces. The Muslim authorities in Jerusalem were not kind to their Christian subjects, forcing them to live a life of "discrimination, servitude, and humiliation".[8]

First Crusade

The mistreatment of Christians would only worsen as the armies of the First Crusade approached Jerusalem. Fearing that the Eastern Christians had been conspiring with approaching crusaders, the Muslim authorities of Jerusalem massacred much of the city's Christian population, seeing the fortunate escape the city in terror.[9] While the Crusaders hoped to protect Christian pilgrims who had been attacked and killed by the Turks, to protect the Christian holy places which had been destroyed by Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, and in fact, were coming in response to pleas for help from the Eastern Christian Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, there is no evidence for any conspiracy.

On 15 July 1099, the army of the First Crusade captured Jerusalem. Most of the city's population was killed, with the exception of Eastern Christians. They were, however, exiled from the city, as their new Latin rulers believed they were conspiring with the Muslims.[10] Jerusalem became the capital of a 'Latin Kingdom' with a Latin church and a Latin Patriarch, all under the authority of the Pope. The city's first Latin ruler, Godfrey of Bouillon, was elected in 1099.[11] Out of humility and deference to Jesus, he refused to be called king in a city where he thought only Jesus had the right to be called king; he would only call himself Jerusalem's protector. Throughout his short reign as protector, Godfrey struggled to increase the population of Jerusalem until his death in 1100. In 1100 he was succeeded by his brother Baldwin I who, unlike Godfrey, was willing to take the title of King of Jerusalem. With Jerusalem's population dwindling Baldwin I, as early as 1115, offered the Christians of Transjordan a section of Jerusalem. These Christians were often the target of Muslim aggression and therefore promptly accepted Baldwin's proposal.[12] In 1187, when Saladin captured the city, the Holy Sepulchre and many other churches were returned to the care of Eastern Christians.

Early modern and modern

From the 17th to the 19th century, various Catholic European nations petitioned the Ottoman Empire for Catholic control of the 'holy places'. The Franciscans are the traditional Catholic custodians of the holy places. Control swung back and forth between the western and eastern churches throughout this period. Sultan Abd-ul-Mejid I (1839–1861), perhaps out of despair, published a firman that laid out in detail the exact rights and responsibility of each community at the Holy Sepulchre. This document became known as the Status Quo, and is still the basis for the complex protocol of the shrine. The Status Quo was upheld by the British Mandate and Jordan.

After the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, and the passing of the Old City into Israeli hands, the Knesset passed a law protecting the holy places. Five Christian communities currently have rights in the Holy Sepulchre: the Greek Patriarchate, Latins (Western Rite Roman Catholics), Armenians, Copts and Syriac Orthodox.

Jerusalem as an allegory for the Church

See also: Supersessionism

In Christianity, Jerusalem is sometimes interpreted as an allegory or type for the church of Christ.[13][14] There is a vast apocalyptic tradition that focuses on the heavenly Jerusalem instead of the literal and historical city of Jerusalem. This view is notably advocated in Augustine of Hippos's The City of God, a popular 5th-century philosophical opus that was written during the decline of the Roman Empire.

See also

References

  1. ^ Beckles Willson, Rachel (2013). Orientalism and Musical Mission: Palestine and the West. Cambridge University Press. p. 146. ISBN 9781107036567.
  2. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia: Jerusalem (Before A.D. 71): III. HISTORY 2018-12-15 at the Wayback Machine D. Under the Roman Domination; until A.D. 70: "Under the administration of Pontius Pilate, Jesus Christ was arrested and put to death. The Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of the Divine Saviour have rendered Jerusalem -- which was already glorious -- the most celebrated city in all the world. The enthusiasm with which, after the Day of Pentecost, thousands of Jews declared themselves disciples of Jesus Christ provoked a violent persecution of Christians, in which the deacon Stephen was the first martyr (Acts 6: 8–15)."
  3. ^ Beckles Willson, Rachel (2013). Orientalism and Musical Mission: Palestine and the West. Cambridge University Press. p. 146. ISBN 9781107036567.
  4. ^ On the flight to Pella, see: Bourgel, Jonathan, "The Jewish Christians' Move from Jerusalem as a pragmatic choice", in: Dan JAFFÉ (ed), Studies in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity, (Leyden: Brill, 2010), p. 107-138.
  5. ^ a b Bargil Pixner, The Church of the Apostles found on Mount Zion, Biblical Archaeology Review 16.3 May/June 1990 [1] 2018-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Socrates' Church History at CCEL.org: Book I, Chapter XVII: The Emperor’s Mother Helena having come to Jerusalem, searches for and finds the Cross of Christ, and builds a Church.
  7. ^ Schaff's Seven Ecumenical Councils: First Nicaea: Canon VII: "Since custom and ancient tradition have prevailed that the Bishop of Aelia [i.e., Jerusalem] should be honoured, let him, saving its due dignity to the Metropolis, have the next place of honour."; "It is very hard to determine just what was the "precedence" granted to the Bishop of Aelia, nor is it clear which is the metropolis referred to in the last clause. Most writers, including Hefele, Balsamon, Aristenus and Beveridge consider it to be Cæsarea; while Zonaras thinks Jerusalem to be intended, a view recently adopted and defended by Fuchs; others again suppose it is Antioch that is referred to."
  8. ^ Prawer, Joshua. "The Settlement of the Latins in Jerusalem," Speculum 27.4 (1952): 491.
  9. ^ Prawer, Joshua. "The Settlement of the Latins in Jerusalem," Speculum 27.4 (1952): 492.
  10. ^ Prawer, Joshua. "The Settlement of the Latins in Jerusalem," Speculum 27.4 (1952): 493.
  11. ^ Riley-Smith, Jonathan. "The Motives of the Earliest Crusaders and the Settlement of Latin Palestine." The English Historical Review 98.398 (1983): 724.
  12. ^ Prawer, Joshua. "The Settlement of the Latins in Jerusalem," Speculum 27.4 (1952): 496.
  13. ^ The imagery of the heavenly Jerusalem (Revelation 21:9-22:5) in Neotestamentica, Vol. 22, No. 1 (1988), pp. 65-86
  14. ^ Lawrence Hull Stookey, The Gothic Cathedral as the Heavenly Jerusalem: Liturgical and Theological Sources, Gesta, Vol. 8, p. 35

External links

  • Catholic Encyclopedia: Jerusalem (A.D. 71-1099)
  • Catholic Encyclopedia: Crusades (A.D. 1095-1270)
  • Catholic Encyclopedia: Jerusalem (After A.D. 1291)
  • Wikisource (Greek): Γνώσις και επίγνωσις των πατριαρχών θρόνων

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For broader coverage of this topic see Religious significance of Jerusalem Jerusalem s role in first century Christianity during the ministry of Jesus and the Apostolic Age as recorded in the New Testament gives it great importance 2 Jerusalem is generally considered the cradle of Christianity 3 Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem is generally considered the cradle of Christianity 1 Contents 1 New Testament 2 Early Christianity 3 Medieval traditions 3 1 Muslim conquest of the Levant 3 2 First Crusade 4 Early modern and modern 5 Jerusalem as an allegory for the Church 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksNew Testament EditAccording to the New Testament Jerusalem was the city to which Jesus was brought as a child to be presented at the Temple Luke 2 22 and to attend the festival of Passover Luke 2 41 According to the gospels Jesus Christ preached and healed in Jerusalem especially in the courts of the Temple The events of Pentecost in the Acts of the Apostles also took place at this location There is also an account of the Cleansing of the Temple where Jesus Christ was expelling traders and money changers out of the sacred precincts Mark 11 15 see also Mark 11 At the end of each of the gospels there are accounts of the Last Supper in an Upper Room in Jerusalem Jesus Christ s arrest in Gethsemane his trial his crucifixion at Golgotha his emtombment nearby his resurrection and ascension and his prophecy to return citation needed The Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles show James the Just the brother of Jesus as a leader of the early Jerusalem church The fourth century church fathers Eusebius and Epiphanius of Salamis cite a tradition that before the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 the Jerusalem Jewish Christians had been warned to flee to Pella in the region of the Decapolis across the Jordan River 4 After the destruction of Jerusalem they came back to the city James and his successors were the focus of Jewish Christians until the destruction of the city by Emperor Hadrian in 135 The Cenacle on Mount Zion claimed to be the location of the Last Supper and Pentecost Bargil Pixner 5 claims the original Church of the Apostles is located under the current structure Christian tradition holds that the place of the Last Supper is the Cenacle on the second floor of a building on Mount Zion where David s Tomb is reportedly on the first floor Biblical archaeologist Bargil Pixner 5 claims to have found three walls of the original structure still extant today The place of Jesus anguished prayer and betrayal Gethsemane is probably somewhere near the Church of All Nations on the Mount of Olives Jesus trial before Pontius Pilate may have taken place at the Antonia Fortress to the north of the Temple area Popularly the exterior pavement where the trial was conducted is beneath the Convent of the Sisters of Zion Other Christians believe that Pilate tried Jesus at Herod s Palace on Mount Zion The Via Dolorosa or way of suffering is the traditional route to Golgotha the place of crucifixion and is an important pilgrimage The route ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre The Holy Sepulchre is traditionally believed to be the location of Golgotha and Jesus nearby tomb The original church was built in 336 by Constantine I The Garden Tomb is a popular pilgrimage site near the Damascus Gate It was suggested by Charles George Gordon that this site rather than the Holy Sepulchre is the true place of Golgotha citation needed Jerusalem historian Dan Mazar reported in a series of articles in the Jerusalem Christian Review on the archaeological discoveries made at this location by his grandfather Professor Benjamin Mazar which included the 1st century stairs of ascent where Jesus and his disciples preached as well as the mikvaot used by both Jewish and Christian pilgrims citation needed Much of this area was also uncovered by the excavations conducted by the elder Mazar Early Christianity Edit The Basilica of the Agony near the Mount of Olives Main entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre See also Christianity in the 1st century Council of Jerusalem Early Christianity Early centers of Christianity Constantine I and Christianity and East West Schism The exclusion of Jews from the new city of Aelia Capitolina meant that gentile bishops were appointed under the authority of the Metropolitans of Caesarea and ultimately the Patriarchs of Antioch The general significance of Jerusalem to Christians outside the Holy Land entered a period of decline during the Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire but resumed again c 325 when Emperor Constantine I and his mother Helena endowed Jerusalem with churches and shrines making it the foremost centre of Christian pilgrimage Helena is remembered as the patron saint of archaeologists and according to the church historian Socrates of Constantinople 6 claimed to have found with the assistance of bishop Macarius of Jerusalem the True Cross after removing a temple to Venus that had been built over the site Jerusalem received special recognition in Canon VII of Nicaea in 325 without yet becoming a metropolitan see 7 The traditional founding date for the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre which guards the Christian holy places in the Holy Land is 313 which corresponds with the date of the Edict of Milan which legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire The Council of Chalcedon in 451 raised the Bishop of Jerusalem to the rank of the patriarch together with Rome Constantinople Alexandria and Antioch However Byzantine politics meant that Jerusalem simply passed from the Syrian jurisdiction of Antioch to the Greek authorities in Constantinople For centuries Greek clergy dominated the Jerusalem church Meanwhile the Roman church never accepted the Pentarchy and instead claimed primacy On the other hand the ancient notion of the primacy of the Church of Jerusalem was preserved in several texts like the early medieval list known as the Limits of the Five Patriarchates Greek Gnwsis kai epignwsis twn patriarxwn 8ronwn Medieval traditions EditMuslim conquest of the Levant Edit See also Muslim conquest of the Levant In 638 Sophronius the Patriarch of Jerusalem handed over the keys of the city to Caliph Umar s Muslim forces The Muslim authorities in Jerusalem were not kind to their Christian subjects forcing them to live a life of discrimination servitude and humiliation 8 First Crusade Edit The mistreatment of Christians would only worsen as the armies of the First Crusade approached Jerusalem Fearing that the Eastern Christians had been conspiring with approaching crusaders the Muslim authorities of Jerusalem massacred much of the city s Christian population seeing the fortunate escape the city in terror 9 While the Crusaders hoped to protect Christian pilgrims who had been attacked and killed by the Turks to protect the Christian holy places which had been destroyed by Caliph Al Hakim bi Amr Allah and in fact were coming in response to pleas for help from the Eastern Christian Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos there is no evidence for any conspiracy On 15 July 1099 the army of the First Crusade captured Jerusalem Most of the city s population was killed with the exception of Eastern Christians They were however exiled from the city as their new Latin rulers believed they were conspiring with the Muslims 10 Jerusalem became the capital of a Latin Kingdom with a Latin church and a Latin Patriarch all under the authority of the Pope The city s first Latin ruler Godfrey of Bouillon was elected in 1099 11 Out of humility and deference to Jesus he refused to be called king in a city where he thought only Jesus had the right to be called king he would only call himself Jerusalem s protector Throughout his short reign as protector Godfrey struggled to increase the population of Jerusalem until his death in 1100 In 1100 he was succeeded by his brother Baldwin I who unlike Godfrey was willing to take the title of King of Jerusalem With Jerusalem s population dwindling Baldwin I as early as 1115 offered the Christians of Transjordan a section of Jerusalem These Christians were often the target of Muslim aggression and therefore promptly accepted Baldwin s proposal 12 In 1187 when Saladin captured the city the Holy Sepulchre and many other churches were returned to the care of Eastern Christians Early modern and modern EditThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed September 2018 Learn how and when to remove this template message From the 17th to the 19th century various Catholic European nations petitioned the Ottoman Empire for Catholic control of the holy places The Franciscans are the traditional Catholic custodians of the holy places Control swung back and forth between the western and eastern churches throughout this period Sultan Abd ul Mejid I 1839 1861 perhaps out of despair published a firman that laid out in detail the exact rights and responsibility of each community at the Holy Sepulchre This document became known as the Status Quo and is still the basis for the complex protocol of the shrine The Status Quo was upheld by the British Mandate and Jordan After the 1967 Arab Israeli War and the passing of the Old City into Israeli hands the Knesset passed a law protecting the holy places Five Christian communities currently have rights in the Holy Sepulchre the Greek Patriarchate Latins Western Rite Roman Catholics Armenians Copts and Syriac Orthodox Jerusalem as an allegory for the Church EditSee also Supersessionism In Christianity Jerusalem is sometimes interpreted as an allegory or type for the church of Christ 13 14 There is a vast apocalyptic tradition that focuses on the heavenly Jerusalem instead of the literal and historical city of Jerusalem This view is notably advocated in Augustine of Hippos s The City of God a popular 5th century philosophical opus that was written during the decline of the Roman Empire See also Edit Christianity portalChristian Zionism Christian Jewish reconciliation Council of Jerusalem 1672 Jerusalem in Judaism Jerusalem in Islam Jesus Trail Limits of the Five Patriarchates List of Christian holy places in the Holy Land New Jerusalem Primacy of the Five Patriarchates Timeline of JerusalemReferences Edit Beckles Willson Rachel 2013 Orientalism and Musical Mission Palestine and the West Cambridge University Press p 146 ISBN 9781107036567 Catholic Encyclopedia Jerusalem Before A D 71 III HISTORY Archived 2018 12 15 at the Wayback Machine D Under the Roman Domination until A D 70 Under the administration of Pontius Pilate Jesus Christ was arrested and put to death The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of the Divine Saviour have rendered Jerusalem which was already glorious the most celebrated city in all the world The enthusiasm with which after the Day of Pentecost thousands of Jews declared themselves disciples of Jesus Christ provoked a violent persecution of Christians in which the deacon Stephen was the first martyr Acts 6 8 15 Beckles Willson Rachel 2013 Orientalism and Musical Mission Palestine and the West Cambridge University Press p 146 ISBN 9781107036567 On the flight to Pella see Bourgel Jonathan The Jewish Christians Move from Jerusalem as a pragmatic choice in Dan JAFFE ed Studies in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity Leyden Brill 2010 p 107 138 a b Bargil Pixner The Church of the Apostles found on Mount Zion Biblical Archaeology Review 16 3 May June 1990 1 Archived 2018 03 09 at the Wayback Machine Socrates Church History at CCEL org Book I Chapter XVII The Emperor s Mother Helena having come to Jerusalem searches for and finds the Cross of Christ and builds a Church Schaff s Seven Ecumenical Councils First Nicaea Canon VII Since custom and ancient tradition have prevailed that the Bishop of Aelia i e Jerusalem should be honoured let him saving its due dignity to the Metropolis have the next place of honour It is very hard to determine just what was the precedence granted to the Bishop of Aelia nor is it clear which is the metropolis referred to in the last clause Most writers including Hefele Balsamon Aristenus and Beveridge consider it to be Caesarea while Zonaras thinks Jerusalem to be intended a view recently adopted and defended by Fuchs others again suppose it is Antioch that is referred to Prawer Joshua The Settlement of the Latins in Jerusalem Speculum 27 4 1952 491 Prawer Joshua The Settlement of the Latins in Jerusalem Speculum 27 4 1952 492 Prawer Joshua The Settlement of the Latins in Jerusalem Speculum 27 4 1952 493 Riley Smith Jonathan The Motives of the Earliest Crusaders and the Settlement of Latin Palestine The English Historical Review 98 398 1983 724 Prawer Joshua The Settlement of the Latins in Jerusalem Speculum 27 4 1952 496 The imagery of the heavenly Jerusalem Revelation 21 9 22 5 in Neotestamentica Vol 22 No 1 1988 pp 65 86 Lawrence Hull Stookey The Gothic Cathedral as the Heavenly Jerusalem Liturgical and Theological Sources Gesta Vol 8 p 35External links EditCatholic Encyclopedia Jerusalem Before A D 71 Catholic Encyclopedia Jerusalem A D 71 1099 Catholic Encyclopedia Crusades A D 1095 1270 Catholic Encyclopedia Jerusalem After A D 1291 Wikisource Greek Gnwsis kai epignwsis twn patriarxwn 8ronwn Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jerusalem in Christianity amp oldid 1147256353, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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