How the Anglo-Saxons adopted Christianity ?

Question

How the Anglo-Saxons adopted Christianity ?

Answer 1

The Pope sent out Bishops to spread religion that is why you have Patron Saints

Answer 2

the Christians beat the heck out of them and forced them to convert

Answer 3

The Anglo-Saxons were Christianized after their arrival in Britain.  The usual date taken for this is 597 ad, though some Britons (Celtic people living there prior to the Anglo-Saxons, conquered by Rome) were already Christian.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/...

Answer 4

The romans spread it all over them. (Roman Catholic)  

Answer 5

Adopt or Forcably Take??

Answer 6

I hope this answer helps. Good luck and have a good day.

Christianity (particularly the Roman Catholic Church) gradually replaced the indigenous religion of the Saxons in England around the 7th and 8th centuries. Christianity was introduced into Northumbria and Mercia by monks from Ireland, but the Synod of Whitby settled the choice for Roman Christianity. As the new clerics became the chroniclers, the old religion was partially lost before it was recorded, and today historians' knowledge of it is largely based on surviving customs and lore, texts, etymological links and archaeological finds.

One of the few recorded references is that a Kentish King would only meet the missionary St. Augustine in the open air, where he would be under the protection of the sky god, Woden. Written Christian prohibitions on acts of paganism are one of historians' main sources of information on pre-Christian beliefs.

Answer 7

Saint Augustine was sent to England by Pope Gregory to convert the Saxons.  In the case of the King of Kent, he was helped by the fact that the Queen of Kent was already a Christian, and persuaded her husband to convert (this was a common occurence, women were among the most enthusiastic converts to christianity).

If you want to read an absolutely enthralling book about the spread of christinaity in Anglo-Saxon england, I warmly recommend Bede's 'Ecclesiastical History of the English people' which is very exciting, full of saints and miracles and kings and queens and battles. It is a remarkable work.

Answer 8

If you want a detailed expanation, read a chapter or two from "A History of Wales," by Davies. It explains the origins of the English and Welsh churches, and later, how the conquests of Edward II changed the Welsh church into an English dependancy.

Answer 9

one of the apostles

Answer 10

Anglo-Saxons and others are extremely intelligent and search for the truth; therefore when they heard it the Holy Spirit let them know, This is the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Once you find God, you don't want to settle for less ... if you're smart.

Answer 11

England (the Roman province of Britannia to be precise) was a Christian country as early as the fourth century.  Early in the fifth century, the legions were called away (and never came back), and Britannia was settled by waves of pagan Angles, Saxons and Jutes.  Britannia was temporarily lost to the Chritian world.

Late in the sixth century, Pope Gregory decided to remedy this, and sent St Augustine who (after a few delays) landed in early 597.

At this time, what was to become England was actually seven kingdoms; and Augustine decided to approach the most powerful king, who at that time was Aethelred, King of Kent.  Augustine converted him, and through him, the people of Kent - it is said that ten thousand people were baptised on Christmas Day 597.

Aethelred, incidentally, had his capital at Canterbury, so Augustine made this his base of operations - and to this day the head churchman in England is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

There is, of course, more to it than this potted summary - not least the Celtic church which had survived (isolated from Rome) in Ireland and some of the Scottish islands, and which sent their own missionaries into the north of England with a slightly different version of Christianity, resulting in a show-down at the Synod of Whitby.

Answer 12

Some by choice, others were forced.

Answer 13

The power of the Anglo-Saxons was finally broken in 1066 AD by the Normans, who might almost be regarded as Vikings, since they came originally from Denmark, though after settling on the French coast they had adopted French customs and a dialect of the French language. The Norman invasion of King William I (a.k.a. the Conqueror) established a strong beachhead in Southern England. Sporadic resistance elsewhere was eventually crushed through advanced military technology involving moats and stone castles (Anglo-Saxon castles or halls were made of wood).

King William I brought defeat upon the Anglo-Saxons. He eventually outlawed paganism and forced the Anglo-Saxonsto adapt to  Christianity

After this period, Anglo-Saxon elements of English culture survive primarily in the working class, while French and Latin elements predominate in aristocratic circles. The animals tended by working-class herders, for example, tended to have Germanic names (cow, lamb, pig), while the finished products served up on the aristocratic table had names derived from French (beef, mutton, pork). Important elements of Anglo-Saxon law were incorporated into English law, however.