History of Christianity

===Mission in primitive Christianity===
{{Main|Christian mission}}
[[File:The Oxford and Cambridge Acts of the Apostles - with ontrod. and notes for the use of students preparing for examinations (1894) (14769867871).jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|The Oxford and Cambridge Acts of the Apostles {{Endash}} [[Paul the Apostle]]'s missionary journeys|alt=map of Paul's missionary journeys]]
From its beginnings, the Christian church has seen itself as having a double mission: first, to fully live out its faith, and second, to pass it on, making Christianity a 'missionary' religion from its inception.{{sfn|de Pressensé|1870|p=21}} Driven by a universalist logic, missions are a multi-cultural, often complex, historical process.{{sfn|Robert|2009|p=1}}

Evangelism began immediately through the [[Apostles in the New Testament|twelve Apostles]], and [[Paul the Apostle|the Apostle Paul]] making multiple trips to found new churches.{{sfn|Neely|2020|page=4}} Christianity quickly spread geographically and numerically, with interaction sometimes producing conflict, and other times producing converts and accommodation.{{sfn|Hengel|2003|pp=38, 125–128}}{{sfn|Kolp|1982|p=223}}
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