The headlong sweep of Christianity from its founding down to the present day was depicted in a cunning mosaic of statistics last week in the American Lutheran by Dr. George Linn Kieffer. A scholarly, bespectacled Lutheran who is president of the Association of Religious Statisticians of America and author of an annual church membership survey for the Christian Herald, Dr. Kieffer pieced together censuses and researches as follows:
100 A. D.: There were 500,000 Christians in the world.
1000: 50,000,000 Christians.
1500: Europe's 100,000,000 souls were 80% Roman Catholic, 20% Jewish, Hussite, Waldensian, Lollard....
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