Did Christianity ever have its own "Golden Age?"

by Zorseking34

I'm just wondering, Islam had a Golden Age of its own for about 500 years give or take a century or two. But I'm just wondering, Christianity was another one of the big religions of that time and did the Church have its own Golden Age like Islam did and if so when did it happen?

Silver2195

"Golden Age" is a pretty arbitrary concept. It's not like Muslims woke up one day and realized a Golden Age had started. It's just a convenient periodization, and when talking about Christian cultures people use different periodizations.

Son_of_Kong

It depends not only on what you mean by "Golden Age," but also on what you mean by "Christianity." Do you mean the Church as an institution, or do you just mean Christian peoples? The Islamic golden age was not a concerted effort by Muslim clerics to advance their religion, it was simply a period when philosophy, science, and art flourished in the Muslim nations--namely the near/middle East, North Africa, and Spain. If you're looking for a similar phenomenon in Europe, you're thinking of the Renaissance, which started in Italy and spread quickly throughout Europe. It should be noted that these movements are deeply connected, as the classical revival at the heart of the Renaissance was spurred by the rediscovery of Greek texts that were lost to the Christian world but preserved by Muslim scholars. Particularly influential were the translations of and commentary on Aristotle by Avicenna (Arabic name Ibn-Sina, of Persia, 980-1037) and Averroes (Ibn-Rusd, Spain, 1126-1198).